Installation.
APRIL 2018 PICADILLI, FAMAGUSTA, Cyprus

For Serap Kanay, the concentration of the project on installation and taking Famagusta as its subject matter have been important factors to direct her to the project. Describing Famagusta as a tired city contrary to others who describe it as a dead city, Kanay, being a resident of Famagusta, seized a chance as well to examine how external eyes experienced the city thanks to this project. This work she named as the Ghosts of Famagusta is composed of iron planks, wooden poles, canvass and joined different sounds and voices.

This corridor that partly widens and partly gets narrower advances drawing zigzags that make a reference to the bastions of Famagusta. On the other hand, the corridor that was kept as narrow as would allow only the passage of one person represents, in the artist’s words, Famagusta’s being stuck. Corridor installed in the terrace of the place was installed as a centerline so that one of its openings faces the sea gate and the other to the land gate. Shortly, the artist calculated the area reanimating the city in another space, in the form of a corridor. The artist used canvass is a material that has been used by the people of Cyprus since the past. Also, she thought of using and actually used the sandstone color of Famagusta Walls for the side fronts of the corridor-all of this has been a right choice for the artist. References were made to all the sounds of Famagusta with complicated sounds installed right in the middle of the corridor in such a way as could be heard from both points of entry. Wave that describes the nature of the city but that describes at the same time the history of Famagusta, thunderstorm that is also reminiscent of a bomb explosion and wind-blowing sounds that are also reminiscent of warplanes are heard. On the other hand, the sound of silence of the ghost town Varosha and incomprehensible human voices makes reference to tales that narrate Famagusta as a city with ghosts. Turning Famagusta into a corridor in every aspect, the artist also calls on the audience to walk in this corridor and see Famagusta from her own perspective.