We are witnessing one of those exceptional moments where imagination and ingenuity meet in a mischievous union. The story progresses through trickery, collaborating on a tightrope.
There is a life trapped in a black box: the tale of phantoms and their dreams. Hayalhâne carries the purpose of unleashing the potential within stories in a world shaped and constructed by positionality. Inspired by Master Architect Hayruddin’s notion of “sustaining humanity,” it revises this idea to make it possible for humans to exist through their dreams, lifting the dark curtain of the black box.It was not for nothing that the Istanbul Gentleman, who had seen Shakespeare’s curtain, called it the “curtain of imagination.” For until that day, it was the Dreamer (Hayâli) who both veiled the eyes of the Ottoman Bey and lifted that veil. Through the marvels of ingenious black boxes, we may well be on the threshold of “the Dreamer’s dream in the twenty-first century.” The ancient tradition of this geography promises not the fiction of existence, but the reality of being. The possibility that photography grants to the ordinary opens a door to the visibility of truth.
Each time the curtain is parted, it summons the dreams of the Dreamers. Every dream chases the reality that once existed and, after a while, the “reproduction” of a reality yet to come. We press the shutter each time to lift the thin veil that conceals secrets.