REBELLION AND MELANCHOLY

video, 2018

The work tells the life of Hayderi accompanied by the poems of the artist’s great-grandfather, Molla Ahmed Hayderi. Industrial elements were used as symbolism while describing his life. Molla’s resistance to modernity with the images in his poetry is the main focus of the work. The verses in the video, together with the images used, strive for a dialectical archiving that does not exclude the present. The title of the work, which is a memory and archival work, comes from Michael Löwy’s book Rebellion and Melancholy: Romance against Modernity. Romanticism and melancholy appear as a means of resistance in the work and It discusses the possibility of this.