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Ahmet Öğüt
Stones to Throw
Stones to throw is an installation which
has been extended to public space. I
depart from nose art, the decorative
paintings on the fuselage of military aircrafts,
which can be seen as a form of aircraft
graffiti. I painted on 10 stones that
feature the same paintings seen in airplanes
and the stoneswere on 10 plinths.
During the show at Kunsthalle Lissabon 9
of the stones was sent to Diyarbakir, my
hometown, one by one and left in the
street. What remained at the end of the
show was; 10 plinths, only one stone and
photos of the other stones located in the
streets of Diyarbakir and the FedEx bills.
At Kunsthalle Lissabon, it was a process;
visitors witnessed stones disappearing
from the exhibition one by one. I decided
not to send the last stone, so it actually
becomes the physical documentation of
the other stones that disappeared in the
streets of Diyarbakir.
Ahmet Öğüt, Stones to throw, iInstallation view from the streets of Diyarbakir. 2010. Painted stones, plinths,
photographs, FedEx bills. Courtesy of the artist. Photographs by Askin Ercan, Bruno Lopes, Ahmet Ögüt
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