Mirrored, fractured, reformed. Chimera turns the body into illusion, where flesh bends under the weight of seeing.
The body is not what it is, but how it is seen. Chimera exposes how gaze, desire, and representation fragment and recompose the human form. This series is about optical rupture—when flesh becomes illusion, and vision distorts truth.
Burak Bulut Yildirim constructs surreal anatomies through mirrors, latex surfaces, optical filters, and light. Skin becomes topography, plastic matter, shimmering illusion. Faces vanish, identities dissolve. What remains are luminous fragments—reassembled, fetishized, estranged. These are not portraits; they are collages. Echoing Hans Bellmer’s broken dolls, Cindy Sherman’s identity play, and ORLAN’s body interventions, Burak’s camera becomes an agent of deconstruction. The body is no longer documented—it is authored.
Each frame delivers a jolt of alienation. The viewer becomes acutely aware of their own gaze. What seems visible is never innocent. Flesh becomes mirror, distortion becomes narrative. Chimera occupies the volatile space between art and spectacle. For collectors, this series offers not just visual impact but conceptual density—each limited edition print a myth, an illusion, a rupture.
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The body becomes wild again. Otherlands lets the figure vanish into light, stone, and the myth of nature.
A body caught between memory and erasure. Antemortem traces the soft residue of life before it slips into silence.
Desire speaks in color. Crave paints the body with longing, each image trembling between heat and hunger.
Not frozen moments, but echoes in motion. Motus captures the body in flux—between gesture, memory, and breath.
Under blacklight, the body becomes flare—a glow, an echo, a mirage. Lucida seeks the threshold where form dissolves.
Mirrored, fractured, reformed. Chimera turns the body into illusion, where flesh bends under the gaze.
Melancholia doesn’t shout—it lingers. These images carry silence, like a breath held too long.