Murat Germen: Way

In the exhibition "Way", Istanbul Modern Photography Gallery presented Murat Germen’s works, which aim to make the spectator feel on the way and to enable the audience to enjoy the process before reaching the goal.

Murat Germen writes "I think of photography as an opportunity to bring to the fore the ordinary things that people, consciously or unconsciously, ignore or don’t see, and give them the chance to change their prejudices. I try to bring out the extraordinariness that may be latent in the normal." Looking at his previous works, such as “Industry as icon: Industrial aesthetics" and "Construct," it is possible to see that in addition to this statement the artist focuses on the production process rather than the final product. His series "Way" follows a similar approach: The concept of way can lead to many different associations; it can emerge before us within the context of transitional linearities that take us from one place to another via land/air/sea, or it can emerge before us as, for example, the means to reach a goal.

Dozens of photographs, sometimes with panoramic proportions and sometimes reaching 10 meters in size, and taken in many different places were exhibited interconnected with the large-sized linear text fragments formed by the aforementioned associations.

Curator: Engin Özendes