Ayse Gül Ulay
       
 
 
 
 
       
     
Seven Scenes
 
2009
 
Composite Triptych, Los Angeles
 

 

 

 

"Seven Scenes" is a disassembled interpretation of a basic landscape scene, engaging methods of cinematic montage to trace continuous variations through a passage of time.

Instead of using seven different shots, Ulay's sequence is set up by cropping 7 areas from a single photograph. By layering the fragmented images on a studio backdrop cloth thus bringing in the landscape indoors, allow a staged set condition to construct and treat each image as elements of a still life composition.

The first and second panel consist of the same 7 scenes reversed in order. The changes in the orientation and display of the images both reveal and obscure the content. The ambiguous rendering of an identical mix create spacial cueing which prompts a different path of sorting in the repurposed scene.

The third panel, a composite of the first and second panel, submits yet another view of the landscape. The fragmented images are re-positioned in the center and the orientation of second row sequence is flipped vertically suggesting a reflected view of the landscape.