Serkan Demir (Turkish, b. 1976)

The conceptual context of the work Hexagon-Pentagon can be defined as a geometric analysis of the current state of events encountered in the Middle East. The modeled motifs inspired by both Arab and Turkish Islamic and Arabesque art history are hand-carved onto used leather footballs turning them into symbols and icons as a reference to a game being played. Through this political and social commentary, the word ‘pentagon’ in this case is used as an underlying reference to the Pentagon in the US, the biggest player of them all in this political game of East versus West.