Exhibitions

Memento Mori

2021

Sabancı Üniversitesi Sakıp Sabancı Müzesi (Emirgan, İstanbul, Türkiye)

The Latin message "memento mori," meaning "remember that you are mortal," is a popular theme in 17th-century European painting. The purpose of these paintings is to remind people that worldly pleasures and beauty are temporary and that this world is a preparation for the next world.

The composition, named after this theme in the history of art, aims to show humanity that it is not at the center of the ecological cycle, and that life can only be sustained in mutual dependence and balance. This work, in which we see only the traces of human beings, reminds the audience that they are mortal through this very preference.

Detail

Collection
Gelen Sergiler
Title
Memento Mori
Date
2021
Medium
Digital print, wallpaper
Location
Sabancı Üniversitesi Sakıp Sabancı Müzesi (Emirgan, İstanbul, Türkiye)
Credit
© (Murat Germen), Photo © Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum


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Subject

Gelen Sergiler

Format

Digital print, wallpaper

Date / Term

2021

Geographical Location

Istanbul, Turkey