In Opus 3c, Silva Bingaz presents a photo series created during her visits to Latvia in 2017. The series carries a weight comparable to her previous Coast series from Istanbul and Japan. The title Opus 3c both references the earlier stages of the series and hints at Bingaz’s ongoing commitment to a musical approach in her exhibition choices.
Silva Bingaz’s oeuvre belongs to the tradition of personal photography. Her work is related to the notion of approach, an indispensable element of the art of photography. Through the way she forms a relationship with the people she is about to photograph, she creates a space that allows for them to be instinctive. Bingaz develops a sense of belonging to the people and animals she photographs. Her photographs aim to capture transient moments that hold private unfoldings of the human experience. The main themes in Opus 3c are again defined by the idea of giving birth; and the efforts to record the act of bringing into existence, the act that remains unrecorded and rather traditionally unknown.
In Opus 3c there is another layer that Bingaz tries out where she gives a reference to Ed van der Elsken, one of her favorite photographers. Opus 3c is embracing not only death and lost times but also the birth and renewal rituals of the longest days of the year in Baltic and Scandinavian traditions.