A Map of the Unconscious
Gürseler’s work is an official map of the unconscious. In this map, the topography, together with the public and personal memory are transformed into signs. Everything from life to death, from jealousy to joy, from mental breakdown to well-being is infiltrated onto this map. When looked at in detail, this map can refer to everything related to humankind and to life. However, since Gürseler’s map is not a geography, but a reproduction of an unruly space unlike geography, its interpretation extends to the infinity of personal possibilities as well as its construction. There is nothing in this map, although there is reference to everything. This map is the “Existence” and the “Absence”. It requires a mind to exist, and each mind decodes the map with its own allegories. As long as these allegories are not involved, Gürseler’s map looks like a dead-end street, the meanings it refers to are beyond the meanings it produces in itself. The gem of this treasure map is not on paper like a pirate scroll, but where the paper points at. Nonetheless, the map is an embodiment, a beginning for consciousness, a bearing, a handle point, a framework within which the data of life can be placed. And the singularity of this map, as well as of its very framework, makes it a unique interface that can be rebuilt every time.
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