Betul's Projects

What does it mean, to live in a room? Is to live in a place to take possession if it? What does taking possesions of a place mean? As from when does somewhere become truly yours?                                                                                George Perec, The Bedroom (page 24). Questions and definitions on George Perec's thoughts on the room and sense of belonging and the questions posed. How is our way of developing perception for places? Bedroom, İs it a space that protects me from outdoor conditions; is a functional space where I can keep my possessions and stay? Or; Is it the area we are wrapped around, covering, representing our existence, defining me, being a piece or a part of it? To feel a sense of belonging in one place, is it important or necessary to be able to sustain life in one place? Especially in communities that live communal life, the lack of a private room belonging to the person, how does the feeling of space-individua

Room: Life, Memory and Traces It is known that the artist has a great share in the artistic production of the experiences of his childhood years. This installation of room is a good example of art based on space, experiences and traces. The red room is the bearer of the traces of the memory of the artist's childhood. The narrow enclosed space with wooden platters has a tense atmosfere with a red bed in its center. A void of the artist's past seems to be a state of concreteness. İn fact, It reveals artist's fixing in this space or turn into this space. Loise Bourgeois, Red Room (Parents) , 1994, wood, metal, rubber, fabric, marble, glass and mirror.