VALERY HEGARTY ENSTALASYONLARINDA KÜLTÜREL BELLEĞİN YAPISÖKÜMÜ

Abstract

Valerie Hegarty, who is an American artist, scrutinizes the fundamental notions of history and the heritage of American art. She aims to reverse the relationships among the sign, signifier and signified in the space arrangements that she deals with the politics of America, revisionism, nationalism and regional deformation. With deconstruction that is the critical discourse of postmodernism, Hegarty both questions the colonialism that is the development policy of American legend and she improves reading alternatives against the suppression of cultural memory. Her exhibitions entitled as "Alternative Histories" and "American Berserk" was evaluated by literature review using qualitative research method. These exhibitions present a new perspective to audience by focussing on U.S.A. and internal dynamics of the current political climate with an icon breaking approach. In this article, within the scope of Hegarty’s installations it is dealt with the devaluation of cultural memory signs, and relationship between “visible” and “reality”.