The Byzantine Corner | الزاوية البيزنطية

The Byzantine Corner

In this project, Kaaf uses his subtle, meditative and mostly abstract visual language to deal with the fields of tension and utopias of different cultures against the background of his biography. Based on photographs taken by the artist of the Byzantine Corner in the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, he uses this architectural element to investigate the overlapping of the most diverse lines of tradition as well as of past and present.

Kaaf will continue to develop the series of works on paper of the same name, in which he interweaves various artistic methods such as photography, collage, montage, editing, drawing and digital processes in a multi-layered way, and bring them into the room in an installation and a video. Here, too, the fragmentation of elements remains characteristic, pointing to a fragmentation of existence, whereby the decomposition is led to a new wholeness.

There are no clear demarcations between cultures, they flow into each other, influence each other, take over traditions, change each other, make them disappear and create something new. Integration is thus not something static, but an organic migration, part of history and present.