FOR THE TIME BEING, MOBY DICK

During their residency, Yalim explored Herman Melville’s seminal novel Moby Dick. They interpreted the book to be a document of exaggerated, obsessive enthusiasm or preoccupation with one thing. In response to Melville, Yalim began writing an auto-fictional novella fused by the artist’s own memories and meticulous details from each chapter of Moby Dick. The novella is a tale of water where the water is seen as an esoteric container with transformative powers, a living archive and a future. 

Yalim was intent on exploring the North Sea, Royal Dutch Shell and the International Criminal Court as disparate allegorical elements of a tale about the obsessive hunt for progress, as if it were a monstrous white whale. The exploration might turn into new works, each with its own white whales.