KARS, 2018

Kars approaches a 30-hour train journey across Turkey, from west to east, not as a fixed narrative, but as a condition. Named after both a city and the final stop, Kars operates as a point of arrival while simultaneously displacing it. The work questions the discontinuity of representation through the tension between analog aesthetics and digital recording. The center continuously shifts; subjects, space, and time dissolve and reconfigure simultaneously. As the images suspend the boundary between document and construction, the journey resists linear progression and unfolds as a cyclical experience. In this sense, the final destination folds back into the process itself, reflecting an ongoing negotiation with photography as both medium and subject.