Ilgın Hancıoğlu
A Moment in the Afternoon* draws its inspiration from William Beckford’s 1786 Gothic novel Vathek. In the novel, Caliph Vathek expands the palace he inherits by constructing new wings, each devoted to a different sensual pleasure. Taking this structure as a point of departure, Hancıoğlu approaches this meticulously designed architecture of excess and transforms it from a set of separated spaces into a hybrid structure where boundaries overlap and dissolve.
The animation focuses on a quiet afternoon just before a great journey begins. In this suspended moment, while the other inhabitants are still asleep, the Devil moves through the rooms in five different manifestations, taking on a different body in each space. In this palace, isolated from the outside world and set in the middle of the desert, figures, objects, and hybrid forms appear and disappear within a nonlinear, spatial narrative.
* A Moment in the Afternoon was produced as part of the Performative Research course led by İnci Eviner within the MA Design Program at Kadir Has University.
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