Miss Turkey, 1932

Archived footage, cardboard boxes

Using footage from my family archives, this piece aims to explore the junction between private and public memories. The films are of my great grandmother from the  International Pageant of Pulchritude in 1932 where she became Turkey's first Miss Universe.  With a changing social landscape, a memory that is being consciously faded from our history. The use of my family videos, photos, relics, and keepsakes within a larger narrative become witnesses to an unspoken history. These emotions and memories are not necessarily present in the images or objects, but found within the story the viewer provides to fill in what has been omitted. Memories that continue to be felt in the future, as the viewer is able to fill in what the visuals have left out.