2017-2020, Kinetic Sculpture (Resin, baklava, chrome suspension pipe and spring, DC motor, Raspberry Pi, cable) 160x100x5cm
Made with layers of dough, filled with syrup; flaky yet sticky. Baklava is the tasty conflict simmering for centuries between many ethnic groups.
My work Baklava consists of baklavas encapsulated in individual blocks of resin, constructing a kinetic installation carpet that gives the impression of flying towards the future. The baklavas on the side of the end in the the air are rotten, while the fixed part of the carpet has been formulated to not deteriorate. Flying baklava carpet offers a speculative fabulation that offers a belonging at once to various histories and geographies, inviting us to imagine counter-narrations to the existing myths. Using society's collective memory expressed in this baklava motif, the work asks what mythologies we are bringing to our future culturally and socially.