EKİN ÖZBİÇER - AUTO ORIENTALISM

'Auto Orientalism' is an ongoing series about Turkey and its people in the 21st century. Auto-orientalism is a neologism that refers to an ordinary mood that can be observed among the urban, relatively westernized middle classes, in the face of the social and political changes Turkey has undergone in the last ten to fifteen years, in which privatization, commodification and conservative values have been on the rise. Based on this neologism Özbiçer, who both suffers from and is inspired by the same mood, pursues this sense of in-betweenness with the spontaneous mise-en-scènes she encounters in the streets of Istanbul.