Artist: Bülent Sangar
Date: 1999
Size: 70 x 100 cm
Technique: Photograph
In his works produced with a cinematographic language, Bülent Şangar questions – through images of tension such as sacrifice, violence, crisis and accident – the power systems embedded in individual, family, and state relations. Calling attention to the fact that systematic violence is constantly reproduced in daily life, the artist defines his photographic series as “obsessively replicated and aligned images where the narrative is noncontinuous, and being oppressed corresponds to the gaps created in consciousness”.In this photographic work, Şangar focuses on the historical and everyday references that surround the notion of sacrifice. Through actions related to tradition, religion, belief, and submission, he points out the sacrifice and sacrificial rituals existing in society. By tracing the violence in attitudes and behaviours in daily life caused by intellectual divergences and differences, he problematises the sacrifice (being sacrificed) and documents it without aesthetic concerns. Consisting of six photographs taken from a distance, the work deals with the sacrificial ritual performed on the side of a highway in a city centre during Eid al-Adha. In the background, on a hill with mass housing, the sacrificed animals are seen being portioned out, the remains buried, and another animal brought to the site to be sacrificed. While documenting a social phenomenon, the artist brings the changing urban topography and the new social constructs up for discussion. He also examines the possibilities of photographic narrative in this landscape, which he created by establishing a new architectural structure through the city with the multiple photographs he combined.
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