Born / Bearing in to Death

Yusuf Cap In her work 'Born/ Bearing in to Death', Gül Ilgaz treats birth as the beginning of death. The photograph shows not so much the physical side of birth as the separation of mother and child after delivery, the loss of their oneness. The child is across the room from the mother in the photograph, but it has no existence of its own; the mother shows both the separation that comes with birth and the beginning of death.