Residual Theatre

This three-part photographic sequence was created in Turkey — a landscape shaped by tourism, spectacle, and the longing for narrative. The work explores the fragile boundary between the natural and the constructed, between simulation and erosion.

This three-part photographic sequence was created in Turkey — a landscape shaped by tourism, spectacle, and the longing for narrative. The images capture the cultural remnants of a tourist fairytale: a faceless amusement figure, airplanes flying in formation above a foggy coastline, and a decorative rug adrift in water. The planes, intended as part of an entertainment show, appear instead ominous — precision turned into anxiety. Each image reflects on the afterlife of symbols once meant to entertain, decorate, or delight. What remains is not activity, but gesture — not function, but presence.
The work explores the fragile boundary between the natural and the constructed, between simulation and erosion. The illusions of leisure dissolve into a landscape that no longer demands them — yet their traces linger, haunting and unresolved.