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Eine Alman Stadt Installation, Artist Book, 2023-24
Eine Alman Stadt is an installation at Trafohaus Kassel (a publishing platform housed in an old electrical substation) realized based on the same-named book published in 2023. The installation consists of two billboards carrying photographs from the book in the front view; an Einfamilienhaus (typical German single-family house) with its front garden, and in the side view, Halitplatz with the memorial of Halit Yozgat—about 1 km far from the location of Trafohaus—who was murdered by the neo-Nazi group NSU in 2007.
The artist book Eine Alman Stadt brings photographs together that were taken during Burçak's studies in Kassel (2013-2017) that highlight the concept of 'greens' in a German city. It reveals connections between the small city timelessness and an assumed universality and neutrality while claiming that a city is a sum of privately owned small islands, intertwined with individualism, neoliberalism and far-right ideologies.
