“Göynek” is a narrative photography project that started when I faced my mother’s disappearance. I found it after she had passed away in her dowery chest. Göynek is an old, traditional form of lingerie from Turkiye that fits like a woman’s second skin; likely, my mother's generation woven her Göyneks with silk in their house. It is tightly twisted when not in use.
The seven-large format, black-and-white negative, was recorded while I pretended to be the main character in the video with a pinhole camera. I put on my Göynek and walked down the highway in Bern, pausing at a billboard featuring an image of a woman reclining seductively and advertising lingerie. Then, I continued into a forest and wandered into an area of cut-down trees. I climbed onto one of the tree trunks and posed in my Göynek, a somber monument to environmental destruction and cultural loss.
