FALSE WITNESS is a book project which explores the conventional book form as the work it self, rather than the book as documentation of a completed art work.

For me, a book deals with questions rather than answers.
It is a powerful tool, which is able to contest categorical assumptions.
Despite the seeming stability of both its content and form, the book changes constantly.
By transforming the inertness of a photograph, the book generates a movement that is free from time and space.

False Witness doesn't have only one story to tell.
Each image has its own story and at the same time, it takes its place in a larger scenario that is created by its neighboring images.
By selecting these particular photographs and putting them in a particular order, I have tried to form a hidden language for the mission I deliberately assigned to this book.

False Witness started to take shape in my mind after I saw the "Asylum Seeker Registration Center" in Ter Apel, Holland.
This center has a linear organizational structure, and the building that this center resides in, was built using the same linear logic.
Its interior and exterior architectural design illustrates a very particular state of mind.
The process involving the asylum seeker once he or she is inside is parallel to the architectural structure of the building.

This book however is not a survey of this registration center.
While the documentation of the “Registration Center” is used as a main source, the book barrows images from other stories.
Aiming to form sentences by using photographic means, it opens its subject to discussion, and instead of shouting
"This shouldn't have happened” tries to reach the invisible through the visible.

The sole written text in this book has a quality similar to the structure that those photographs following it create among themselves.
It is an edited and revised version of the corpus-based data for the word "measure".
A corpus can be thought of as a collection of texts gathered according to particular principles for some particular purpose.
This corpus gave me some fragments of the sentences containing the word "measure" and I used them as my source.
I edited and completed these fragments, and now I expect them to behave as a whole.

There are three presentations based on False Witness , for each interpretation it is essential to keep the photographs "in the book".