The imperiled world's images at 'System' photo exhibit

The seventh solo photograph exhibition of Assistant Professor Cüneyt Gök, who is affiliated with Istanbul Kemerburgaz University's Department of Graphic Design, is titled "System." The exhibition will run until April 1 at Gallery Altınbaş. The exhibition determines all of life's functioning and Gök is exhibiting the images that allow us to try to make sense of the deregulated world.

With its stunning frames and images that will stick to your mind, "System" is organized under three main headings, including systems that transform the subject from the object, the system of objects and natural living systems. "Life that is in constant change and transformation is in essence, a natural system. However, as a society based on consumption and being alienated from ourselves in our new ways of life, how much do we ever question or realize when we transform from the subject to the object? When asking myself these questions, I wanted to share the photos that I've been taking for years on the issue for my 'System' exhibition to raise awareness," said Gök, who is sharing 70 of both his color and black and white digital prints with art lovers.

A critical view of parts that make up the world as a whole

Arguing the fact that every part represents a whole and that with the corruption of one of these parts the whole can suffer damage, Gök said: "There are problems now with every part that composes the world as a whole. With the industrial revolution and capitalism constantly unbalanced as well as coming to a point where it cannot be restored, we are losing the values that we stand for. Today's people are being numbed by artificial activities and technology; thus, individuals who, just like the system wants, don't realize, don't ask and don't question come into existence. Technological addiction that is fueled by consumption leads to both the exhaustion of resources and the facts behind the truth to be covered by a curtain."

He stressed that by destroying the world, natural resources, other creatures and natural habitats, humans thus destroy themselves and their futures. "When we are done with the redundant benefit relationship with the short-term objects we produce, we will find ourselves drowning in our own garbage. Borges, in his book 'The History of Eternity,' said life has three dimensions. He said, 'Length is the first dimension for vegetation, width is the second dimension for animal life and depth is the third dimension that is suitable for human life.' This is why I hope that humans will think more in-depth, but my wishes don't always come true," Gök concluded.