No Land Can Hold My Body

No Land Can Hold My Body, 2021
Canbora Bayraktar & Yeliz Yorulmaz

No Land Can Hold My Body marries imagery that evokes a make-believe space travel, with culturally loaded landscapes and symbols. This project is a refinement of our deep-seated emotional states, experiences and moods in Australia over a decade. We set off on our wanderings in pursuit of our desire to find a place we call home. This alternate home is an imaginary land that is the mélange of our playful dreams and memories, and disappointment in their knock-off. The installation humorously suggests both fantasies of escape (dreaming about finding a 'home' on another planet) and possible realities of fantasies (knowing that if we find it, it will be another 'not-home'). The analogy of a stillborn space exploration is visually defined through a spaceship destined to fall and a fallen meteorite weirdly familiarised by some ordinary household objects.