"The Last Trump / Eco-Calyptic", 2016.

"The Last Trump / Eco-Calyptic"

‘The Last Trump’ is an instrument that foretells the end of the world in many myths and religions. According to these beliefs, this instrument is blown by a male angel.

The consumerist and invasive masculine capitalist system consumes and pollutes the Earth and natural resources as if they were disposable.

This photograph was taken near Hasankeyf, a 12 thousand year old settlement on the banks of the ancient Tigris river in the North of Mesoptamia, which is being submerged for the construction of a Hydro Electric Power Plant with a maximum economic life of 50 years.

In this artwork, the plastic water bottle, which has become a phenomenon of disposable use, is transformed into The Last Trump, and it is again a Male Angel (!) who announces the pollution that brings the end of the world.

There is another irony in the word ‘Trump’, I think there is no need to elaborate this irony further.