words blind, 2025

Found window blind, UV light paint

60 x 80 x 30cm

words blind stage the tension between language and presence.

Intimate confessions and half-dreamed phrases are inscribed on blinds that both reveal and conceal.

It reflects the condition of being queer, Asian, and constantly under the gaze.

Language has become a tool of power rather than a means of expression.

I hide my emotions behind the window blinds, behind light and shadow, behind the blurred boundaries — between seeing and being seen.

It could be a space of instability, yet also a space of hidden power and resistance.

Photos // Yasemin Erguvan