Unicorn

This work is a digital rendering from Bayraktar's physical installation titled "Skins", which was exhibited in 2019 at Sanatorium, Istanbul.

“Skins” (2019) comprises of digitally rendered portraits of various beings. Posing questions on how we perceive stillness, life, and death, the work invites the viewer to look at the stillness of different modes of existences such as plant, animal, and object. It doesn’t see stillness as a passive, stagnant state, instead, it re-considers it as a state that presently accomodates processes of being and formation of all historical, complex relations of earth, as a state that carries a potential for unpredictable change. The work, with individual figures rendered at different moments making an impression to see time as individual moments, also communicates formally with concepts such as separatedness and discontunity which are the main principles and modes of existences of the digital image.”