“Everything” 2009
160x320x10cm
Hand made crocheted letters, threads, bobbins
The work titled “Everything” (2009) includes the text “Everything you heard about Turkish men is true” embroidered and purled with lace. The perfunctoriness of the statement is no different then the prejudice it affirms. Koçyigit contrasts this with the slow production process of the lace women embroider over the course of months, representing the emotion, preferences and culture of the society it represents. Certain dichotomies and the tension that emerges from the state of uncertainty and unfinishedness evoked by these prevail in Koçyigit’s work, such as interacting with the settled and unsettling/displacing it—tradition and destruction; rich and poor; profit and loss; feminine and virile; the inside and the street. These double connotations are rendered visual through the objects and instances the artist includes in his work.