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“Rear Window (Story No. 6)” Anny and Sibel Öztürk In “Rear Window (Story No. 6)”, Anny and Sibel Öztürk have reconstructed the living room of their great-aunt from Istanbul with all its furniture and atmosphere: a TV set, a cupboard, fake wooden furniture from the 1950s, small blankets, a pale rococo gobelin and a big photograph of a lake in the snow-capped Rocky Mountains; it is gloomy and hot, loud street noise is audible, voices speak simultaneously, the curtains swell, and beams from a car headlight sweep across the window. Thus, the visitor is not only placed into the imaginary Istanbul, but first and foremost into an uncanny situation of suspension. The title of the installation refers to the Hitchcock movie “Rear Window”; Öztürk’s “Rear Window” is haunted by the aunt’s ghost. Anny and Sibel Öztürk used to spend a week in this room in Istanbul each time before the family journeyed to the sea. Thus, the installation does not reconstruct a room in, but a childhood memory of Turkey, mediated by an American film. The apparent reference to a specific location in Istanbul is owing to the non-spatiality of memory, which constantly merges itself with other images. According to the installation, one’s identity is the result of such imaginary projections onto the past. Anny Öztürk, artist, born 1970, lives and works in Frankfurt. / Sibel Öztürk, artist, born 1975, lives and works in Frankfurt. |
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