MONOCULTURE | A Recent History

Stranger in Paradise is one of a number of photographic installations Alptekin produced taking the shape of a cloud. The artist assembled the work using hundreds of photos depicting the façades of buildings in Turkey being renovated as well as trucks on the highway taken in Leipzig. The colours and form of the work are in the first instance visually seductive, yet it depicts the manifestations of rapid economic development and modernisation in different societies, and the banality of life for the people caught in the midst of it all.