2016-2021 performative installation
The visual material used by Ece Eldek in this work is based on a found book written in English. This book, titled “Muhammad and the Quran,” written by Rafiq Zakaria, contains certain verses from the Quran and narrates the life of the Prophet. While reading the book, which she came across by chance, Eldek realized that the translations of the verses into English were very poetic and began writing stream of consciousness poems on several pages of the book. She changed the title of the book to “Kurulu An / The Wound-up Moment”, considering holy scriptures as mechanisms that set up life like a wind-up clock. Stream of consciousness is a writing technique used by certain writers and poets to transfer glimpses of thought, associated to momentary feelings or triggered by other ideas, on paper. By interpreting the book with this method, the artist also wants to reflect on the moments and techniques involved in the writing of holy books.
