Direct Sound, Reverse Image, 2023
Merve Ünsal, with Gizem Bengisu Erenler, Direct Sound, Reverse Image, 2023. Newspaper, aluminum foil, light-blocking tape, speakers. Installation view from AVTO (Istanbul) by Mina Meriç.
Merve Ünsal, with Gizem Bengisu Erenler, Direct Sound, Reverse Image, 2023. Newspaper, aluminum foil, light-blocking tape, speakers. Installation view from AVTO (Istanbul) by Mina Meriç.
Direct Sound, Reverse Image converges the image of the street, captured through a mechanism akin to a camera obscura, into sound. Electronic voice phenomena, which are considered to make audible ghosts through words and brief sentences heard in sound recordings are converged with field recordings from the Kazancı Yokuşu to draw on and to recall memories of this particular place. Marking the transition from image to sound as a milestone in Merve’s practice, this work is an homage to Cengiz Çekil’s 1980 work Reverse Image.
