Bakhtiyar Berkin
Simulacra (Single)
DESCRIPTION
This piece is dedicated to perception of religious imagery in inanimate objects, also known as simulacra. This phenomenon has been beneficial to the Internet age and online trade platforms. One famous example was a grilled cheese sandwich that resembled Virgin Mary's face. It was purchased for $28,000 by an internet casino through eBay auction. This Photograph is essentially satire of a modern day entrepreneurial spirit that takes advantage of very human's tendency to derive meaning, seek correlation; and human's over-semsetivity to recognising patterns in random phenomena.
This image was shot on a large format film camera.
AUTHOR
Throughout my childhood and adolescence I have been suffering from recurring sleep paralysis episodes. During my episodes I have experienced a state where I was mentally awake with my body being paralysed in the sleep state. Those episodes were accompanied by very vivid hallucinations. These experiences helped me to learn how to accept contradiction between dream and reality. It gave me an inspiration to bring these unnerving, illogical scenes in to everyday life. And that is why I chose surrealism as my photographic style.
I feel that creating surrealistic photographs allows my unconscious to be expressed.
MA Photography, London College of Communication, University of The Arts, London 2015-present
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Camberwell College of Arts, University of The Arts, London 2012-15
The Clyde & Co Art Prize
shortlisted
Hix Award
finalist
FloatArt Award
finalist
Recent Exhibitions:
'Modern Panic VI', Apiary Studios, London, 2015
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