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.
