Umbrella, 2016

Alp Sime, one of the prominent photographers of his era, reveals in his work the extraordinariness of the random with his unique way of seeing. An image captured randomly in the flow of daily life is transformed by Sime’s visual language and interpretation. A strangeness that hints at the uncertain and sometimes surprising dynamics of the subconscious is reflected to the viewer through both familiar and unfamiliar visuals. The photographs dominated often by black and white, turn into another aesthetic reality with the presence of light. By capturing the interaction between the lonesome individual living in the city by himself and everything around him, the artist presents what we encounter in daily life along with all that is living and non-living as if they are in an indefinite dream. Although Sime deals with the subjects of loneliness, melancholy and alienated people in urban life in his work, he does not present these concepts only within the framework of sadness, but rather reminds the audience by using dark humor that they live in an absurd world.