This installation by Günaydın during her residency at Saha Studio features the word "MUSSAKHAN," rendered in metal using the bespoke typeface "HAMASET." Mounted on a form referencing a T-Wall Barrier mold structure commonly associated with separation and militarized landscapes, the work evokes concrete barricades, highlighting tensions of physical and symbolic division. It was exhibited at the İstanbul Manufacturer Retail Center, resonating with themes of geopolitical and cultural fragmentation.
(Produced as part of my residency at Saha Studio in Istanbul, Turkiye, 2024.)
MUSSAKHAN forms part of OPUS: A Para-Opera, a long-term project exploring support, resistance, and typographic protest through fragmentary works.
Please visit the website to view the Opus: A Para-Opera.
Powder-coated metal, 300 x 200 x 132 cm.
View from the "MUSSAKHAN " at IMÇ.
View from the "MUSSAKHAN " at IMÇ.
View from the "MUSSAKHAN " at IMÇ.