Guilty Pleasures, 2018-2026
Variable multi-channel video and sound installation
Guilty Pleasures is a multi-channel video and sound installation composed of whispered confessions and fragmented gestures. Disembodied hands perform involuntary, repetitive movements—tics that echo the psychological tension carried by the voice. Across a distributed arrangement of screens and speakers, the work constructs an intimate yet unstable field where private thoughts circulate in public space.
The whispered texts - spoken by the artist - take the form of “guilty pleasures”: minor fantasies, compensatory fictions, and interior negotiations with shame, ego, and vulnerability. These confessions do not seek resolution; rather, they operate as mechanisms of self-soothing, projection, and quiet self-exposure.
Installed as a spatial constellation, the work invites visitors into a dispersed circle of listening and viewing, where attention shifts between voice and gesture, interiority and embodiment. Gossip, here, is reconfigured as a solitary yet shared practice: an ambiguous zone between relief and discomfort, where the boundaries between private and public begin to blur.
Guilty Pleasures V.I, Installation view form "We Are Not Innocent", Solo Exhibition, 2019, Depo, Istanbul
Guilty Pleasures V.II, Installation view from "Rounded by Sleep", curated by Eda Berkmen, 2022, Arter, Istanbul
Guilty Pleasures V.III, Installation view from "Shhhturz – Aman Yavaş", curated by Julie Portier, 2026, Monopôle, Lyon, Photo by Alexis Puget
Guilty Pleasures V.III, Installation view from "Shhhturz – Aman Yavaş", curated by Julie Portier, 2026, Monopôle, Lyon, Photo by Alexis Puget