Pınar Öğrenci’s 8 screen video installation “Led Light City” is composed of scrolling LED signs which constantly change the city imagery in Istanbul since 2013 when the mass migration started from Syria after the war. She concentrates how Arabic alphabet which was used by Ottomans and band by Turkish Rebuplic just after the First World War and removed from the facades of the buildings and public spaces, now turnes back to the old capital city of Ottoman Empire almost 100 years after by another war in the region with digital technology. The installation which can be seen as a new digital landscape of Istanbul, explores apparent relationships between the demographic changes, migration, war, trade, economy, architecture and city, as well as local use of language and text.
