HELIN BEREKET
Amaranthine

„Amaranthine“ is a conceptual series of self-portraits. With props borrowed from theater & pantomime make-up, swimming costumes from the early 1920s and 1950s brutalist architecture scenography, we see an actress embodying different styles and epochs. She plays all roles of the story, which is polychronic, dissonant, and multilayered. Striking different poses, she blends aesthetics of classical sculpture, grand manner painting, silent film, slapstick, contemporary fashion photography. At times the actress is gracious and monumental, at others contemplative, calm and peaceful. Sometimes she invites and even teases the viewer, nonetheless she is a serious entertainer. Staged in monochrome black and white photo mode the images transpose us in times bygone, yet nothing is old in them.  Bereket recycles not the past but the present, our current urban space, style techniques and technology, thus creating a confusing palimpsest of times open to infinite subjective interpretations.

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