Digital animation. 3 works (of an original 4). 2003 / digitized 2021.
In 2003, while the United States and its coalition partners were initiating a war in Iraq in the name of peace, I made four animations for a webpage I called "I didn't do anything." The phrase belonged to everyone simultaneously: to the ordinary Iraqi whose life was being destroyed, to the ordinary American who had not voted for this, to the ordinary Turk watching from next door, to me.
The animations showed what happens to a person compelled into cruelty and subjected to oppression at the same time — the particular deformation of a human being caught between violence and complicity. The site circulated widely in 2003, receiving recognition in Turkey and internationally.
What I did not know then was that Fromm had already named what I was trying to show: necrophilia not as pathology but as civilizational orientation — the drive to control, to destroy, to convert the living into the dead. A war conducted for peace is its clearest expression.