→ “Blame”

Feelings of guilt persistently knock at the back of my mind whenever a moment of silence emerges. In these days, silence is my constant companion. I have relocated to a foreign land, Austria, where guilt flows through the blue veins of the local inhabitants' white skin. Here, Ukrainian and Russian refugees also lay their heavy heads on painful memories of shame and guilt. Immigrants from Turkey, Iran, Syria, Brazil, and America share this experience.

It seems that no one escapes the grasp of history. In this sense, the common denominator is war. The work "Blame" seeks to capture the moments when an internal dialogue unfolds. The self within me becomes both the creator of criteria and the gatekeeper, the respondent and the punisher, the declarer and the forgetter, and the compassionate one. In the movement between poster and dissolution, the ink and voice wash over the page, complicating the attempt to achieve clarity. Boundaries blur in roles and letters, as everything seems to sink into a stained subconscious, obstructing access to fear. Reluctantly, these elements resurface repeatedly, emerging from the fog of denial, engraving the page with their clarity and declaring the blurring.

In stillness or among people—never relinquishing.