good people helping bad ones (that’s why they’re bad too)

good people helping bad ones (that’s why they’re bad too), 2019

Acrylic on black paper, 70 × 100 cm (27 ½ × 39 ⅜ in). Painting by Yiğit Özen (decentralize*).

A large white and pale blue mass of overlapping rounded units fills the upper two thirds over a black support, crossed by orange and ochre streaks and short yellow-green dashes. Two pale discs sit near its top; a separate white ovoid marked with two orange crosses floats at the upper right corner. Three small red and orange figures stand in a row along the bottom edge, arms extended so their hands meet, each with a round head bearing two white X marks and short white strokes below. Two white crosses appear at the lower right. Bare black shows at every edge.

How many bodies there are within a white heap cannot be counted; an arm rises up, a leg hangs from beneath it, in the middle two rounds resembling a chest overlap and it is unclear whose limb ends where. The one who helps and the one helped, the one embraced and the one crushed, melt into the same mass.

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