You Have a Place Above My Head

Using contemporary terminology, the series You Have a Place Above My Head, which the artist has been developing since 2019, explores the potential sexuality of everyday objects discovered during walks in Istanbul."Genre painting, in the literature of art history, is defined as productions realized on canvas with paint, presenting everyday life shaped in domestic settings to the viewer. The series departs from the tradition of assigning female figures in genre painting to specific spaces or roles. It visually questions the transformation of the position on the head, which symbolizes the Turkish cultural value of respect and tolerance, into objects of femininity within the domestic space in Turkey, by adopting the visual theme of the saying 'You have a place above my head'. The artist uses random objects that he has found on walks around the city as vehicles to transport his observations. Undefined objects found on the street, a public space, in the context of a home acquire a defined sexuality thus explaining the duality arising from the juxtaposition of linguistics-objects-space. By placing the planned creation of the traditional in the realm of flow, it metaphorically presents the idea of defined sexual identities being in flux to the viewer and invites contemplation upon objects."

Berk Kır is part of Münchner Kammerspiele X Der Greif: “Off to Elsewhere”.