Heaven and Hell is a re-make, using black-market cigarette packages, of a series of screenprints that Andy Warhol did in the 1980s . Through the use of black-market cigarette packaging from the region of Van, in Turkey, Dere's work takes the fleeting sense of immortality (through repetition) in Warhol's world toward a specific symbolism of death.
I was by myself that day in a friend's studio. I lit the furnace and stretched out. A while later, I got bored and and picked a book from the shelf. What I came up with was a catalogue of Warhol. I remember staring at a page while browsing, and returning to it again and again. Something happened inside me that I couldn't grasp. Perhaps in my eyes, it had the power of prophecy. Had I suddenly entered the world of Warhol? Without knowing what was happening, I had discovered the eternity that was transient in his world, just for once...Heaven and Hell were only a breath away...I was to recreate the work, and this I did with the life I was within, and the ever-changing visions of my life...love from Chirico..