ATMs, 2013
Merve Ünsal, ATMs (on the left), 2013. Nine RC-prints mounted on aluminum. Installation view from Almost Done at 5533, Istanbul, May 2013. Photo by Sevim Sancaktar.
Merve Ünsal, ATMs, 2013. Nine RC-prints mounted on aluminum.
Merve Ünsal, ATMs, 2013. Nine RC-prints mounted on aluminum.
ATMs is a series of nine photographs. The photographs are of ATMs on my way between my home and my workplace at the time (a commercial gallery where I was an artist’s assistant). They are installed on a line, intermittently, to mimic the approximate distances between the ATMs. The inspiration for this work was an incident that I had discussed during a performance, A Text Begins and Ends., which you can watch in Turkish here. I had seen a person checking the ATMs while walking past them to see if anybody had left behind money: Could this gesture be integrated into commutes to work? As walks to work also constitute “studio” space and time, perhaps this gesture could be seen as a stand-in for the different forms of work that make up one’s practice, as well as those moments of finding things.
