Time stands still, abonded hamam at sunday afternoon, forgotten carriage, divided in parts, hanging shoes, verdigris covered walls, vacant flats in late summer light

The Terror of Reality is a term, that was developed by a group of artists in Turkey calling

thenselves “Periferi”. Periferi feels a closeness to the Situationists International, a

leftist avantgard art movement of the 1960th. Environment, urbanism, social rsistance

and the active fight against a capitalist “psychogram” of society were some of their main

topics.

Sebastian Riemer uses Photography as a medium for producing abstractions of
different surfaces. In Istanbul he chose wall pictures as
motives. Mainly children stick them on walls in poor
neighborhoods like Balat. Football stars, toys and comic strips
are combined to a new narration with no certain plot.

moving around, at nights during summer Ramadan in Istanbul… the month of fasting, lasting 29 days based on the visual sightings of the crescent moon. While fasting from dawn until sunset you refrain from consuming food, drinking liquids and sexual relations.

video by Tan Cemal Genc

ddr’nin agitprop albümünden tanklar ve yığınlar. yönetmen: tan cemal yapımcı: peyote müzik 2010

Anne Knödler spent six month in Istanbul with a residency from Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle.