PURGING
Installation
Purging constructs a ritualistic space of psychological confrontation in which the human body becomes suspended between purification and annihilation. The installation examines how contemporary systems of power produce invisible mechanisms of cleansing through exclusion, suppression, and symbolic violence. Here, purification no longer functions as a spiritual act of redemption, but as a disciplinary structure through which societies attempt to erase fear, difference, memory, and uncertainty.
Within the installation space, the body appears fragmented, vulnerable, and stripped of stable identity. Architectural formations, deteriorated materials, and suspended spatial relations generate an atmosphere oscillating between sacred ritual and institutional control. The viewer enters a condition of tension where the boundaries between confession, punishment, and disappearance begin to collapse.
The work approaches violence not through direct representation, but through absence, repetition, and psychological pressure. Presence itself becomes unstable; bodies appear as traces, remnants, or silent witnesses trapped within systems larger than themselves. Spatial confinement transforms the installation into a metaphorical zone of containment where existence is continuously monitored, filtered, and reconstructed.
The concept of “purging” expands beyond physical cleansing toward ideological purification embedded within political, social, and cultural structures. The work reflects on contemporary civilization’s obsession with eliminating ambiguity and controlling the unfamiliar. In this context, fear becomes institutionalized, and purification becomes inseparable from domination.
Through fragile structures and immersive spatial tension, the installation creates a suspended environment where destruction and renewal coexist simultaneously. The work ultimately proposes a philosophical meditation on the fragility of human existence within systems seeking absolute order — systems in which the desire for purity gradually transforms into a mechanism of erasure.
