This work is influenced by the absurdity, satire, and anti-establishment spirit of Dadaism. Inspired particularly by the works of Marcel Duchamp, it reconstructs familiar symbols, language, and social realities in order to question power, inequality, and the uncomfortable truths hidden within contemporary society.
George Orwell’s famous line —
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”
— serves as one of the central political references of the work.
I localized and transformed this statement into:
“All animals are equal, but some animals do not have to stand in the TCB line.”
Here, TCB, a government program that provides essential food items at subsidized prices, becomes more than just a social welfare reference. It symbolizes economic inequality, class division, and the unequal realities of survival. While some people are forced to stand in long queues for basic necessities, others remain completely detached from that struggle within the same society.
The central human-like figure is intentionally fragmented, distorted, and irrationally constructed. Eyes, ears, mouths, keys, weapons, animals, limbs, and disconnected objects merge together to form a body that simultaneously represents the human being, the state, the consumer, the victim, and the controller.
The key emerging from the mouth acts as an important motif within the work. It refers to controlled speech, predetermined narratives, and social programming. We speak, protest, consume, and remain silent, but how much of it is truly our own will?
The text “H.O.O.Q.” directly references Marcel Duchamp’s L.H.O.O.Q. Just as Duchamp mocked traditional ideas of art, beauty, and “high culture,” this work uses “H.O.O.Q.” to question the absurdity, hypocrisy, and constructed power structures embedded within social and political systems.
Throughout the work, Dadaist collage, disconnected symbolism, childlike visual language, satirical text, and irrational compositions are used intentionally. Because reality itself sometimes becomes so absurd that satire can reveal its truth more effectively than logic.
This work is not only about economic inequality; it reflects a society where the language of equality is constantly repeated, while access to privilege, dignity, and even survival remains deeply unequal.