LONDON.- Mat Collishaw’s seminal work Bullet Hole will feature in the 12th Istanbul Biennial. Bullet Hole depicts a horrific wound to the top of a human scalp, the hair of the recipient plastered to the sides to reveal the entry point. Collishaw appropriated the original photograph from a pathology textbook; despite the work’s name, the wound was in fact caused by an ice pick. He then enlarged the photograph, creating fifteen transparencies each mounted on its own lightbox. Unsurprisingly, Bullet Hole created an immediate sensation when it was first shown in Freeze, the now legendary exhibition curated by Damien Hirst in 1988, and has since become one of the pivotal images of the YBA (Young British Artist) movement. Indeed, Bullet Hole gave the exhibition its name; according to the catalogue: ‘the title comes from Mat Collishaw’s lightbox, dedicated to a moment of impact, a preserved now, a freeze frame.