The artist draws a parallel between the ouroboros, a self-eating snake that symbolizes the cycle of birth and death in Ancient Egyptian and Greek civilizations, and the subway system. His series of photographs constitute a fictional urban landscape that is reminiscent of Istanbul. As the symbol of ouroboros evokes a sense of temporality that is sustained through repetition, the artist is able to question the relationship between what is real and what is close to the real through this background. Security systems, operation sites, closed doors and in-between spaces with unclean functions produce the main atmosphere of this work. In this story, the subway user is assumed to spend their lives in an infinite loop among the last ruins of an underground city that is “yet to come.”
