"As to the form a sign should have, you say it's no problem because, whatever form it may be given, a sign only has to serve as a sign, that is, be different or else the same as other signs: here again it's easy for you young ones to talk, but in that period I didn't have any examples to follow, I couldn't say I'll make it the same or I'll make it different, there were no things to copy, nobody knew what a line was, straight or curved, or even a dot, or a protuberance or a cavity. I conceived the idea of making a sign, that's true enough, or rather, I conceived the idea of considering a sign a something that I felt like making, so when, at that point in space and not in another,I made something, meaning to make a sign, it turned out that I really had made a sign, after all."
Italo Calvino, Cosmicomics
Title of the project is depicted with the sign above.
"Dwarfed by these large chambers illuminated by our wandering lights, sometimes we were overcome by a strong, irrational sensation as if we were disturbing the Palaeolithic people in their work. It felt like eyes upon us."
Werner Herzog
Outside view of the work.
Top of the wooden room is covered with light-proof cloth. Inside, you are not exposed to any light as you are used to in daily life, but you are the one who iluminates the space with a torch in your hand. Temperature is different and airflow also is. It is a different world. Darkness explodes your imagination. You are full of desire to march in to the unknown, to discover what is hidden in darkness, the magical.
...A sort of dehiscence opens my body in two, and because between my body looked and my body looking, my body touched and my body touching, there is overlapping or encroachment, to that we may say that the things pass into us as well as we into things.
Merleau-Ponty
Panoramic view of the wall in front of you when you enter the room.
Ligh painting by Serdar Bilici.
Ligh painting by Serdar Bilici.
Panoramic view of the wall on the right side of the room.
Ligh painting by Serdar Bilici.
What the rock told him was that the animals - like everything else that existed - were inside the rock, and that he, with his red pigment on his finger, could persuade them to come to the rock's surface.
John Berger
PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE INSIDE OF THE ROOM
Panoramic view of the wall on the left side.
Panoramic view of the wall across the entrance.
Panoramic view of the wall on the right side.
Panoramic view of the entire room.
