refreshing geometry...

is what this artist, Sakir Gökcebag, makes: 

recontextualizing everyday objects from their customary contexts through geometry, serial reproduction, deformation, and deconstruction.

«We live in a designed and thoroughly constructed world, in which the natural has largely been superseded by the cultural practices of man. Everything we use has been devised, produced, and mediated through others. Today, designers are the composers of our world. They determine how we sit, what we wear, and what we are supposed to eat. In consequence, we have long been deprived of our capacity for making our own decisions. In pre-modern times, man was more autarchic in his social environment and more concentrated on his immediate context. He lived in closer connection to nature, from which he learned and from which he obtained the raw materials for his existence. The end products with and from which the individual lived were partially produced by one’s own hand. Yet, although the whole world has virtually become a village for us, we are no longer able to manufacture anything ourselves. Thus, we are caught in the paradox of a theoretical omnipresence and availability of products and their practical inaccessibility and unavailability. Because of this dilemma, we are dependent on the manual labor of people from countries, the geographical location of which we have difficulty finding on the world map. Our service, recreation, and entertainment society is amusing itself to death and in the process is being buried under the objects of everyday life, with which we connect the hope for meaning in the social vacuum of our existence. Disposable society! What an ironical term, when, in fact, we identify ourselves today more than ever through our possessions. Thus, the questions pertaining to our identity have only short-term significance since after all they ultimately end up in the garbage can.»

From:On the Beauty of the Normal and the Poetry of the Everyday
(Some thoughts on the works of Sakir Gökçebag)
 by Dr. Marcus Graf