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On the poetry of action

Evrim Altuğ interviewed Leyla Ünsal, who curated the exhibition “Another Apocalyspe is Possible”.

A Testimony of the Unfamiliar: Ali Kazma

An essay on the four video works of Ali Kazma from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection.

Waves, Sands, Winds: Patina of the Era in the Fluid Image of Nature

Thoughts on capturing the transforming image of nature...

Dissipation of the silhouette

“We want the creative faculty to imagine that which we know;
we want the generous impulse to act that which we imagine. We want the poetry of life.”
- Percy Shelley, A Defense of Poetry

A “Second New”  Aquarium of Media

Images from Sönmez’s final proposition for an interdisciplinary reading, Water Reverie, cling to the “neck” of the Bosphorus, which then surge forth to invade our screens.

Present Distant

An essay on the opsigns and sonsigns in Ali Kazma’s videos.

Memento Mori

“You cannot talk about death in the storm
Because death also adds its essence to the storm
What are we doing here waiting like this?
Did we win or did we lose?
A small bird, aloft
Drags our shadows along continuously
And already we’ve somehow unloosened our boats.”
Edip Cansever, Water Reverie, Part IV

Constructing The Invisible City

One can live in time but that would amount to existing in a frozen, static, dormant past.
Italo Calvino

An Interview with Ola Kolehmainen on the Sinan Project

Digital Innocence: A Talk Upon Senkron

The conversation below, available online on YouTube here in Turkish, was edited for clarity.

Time to testify the synchronizing chaos

All systems, identifications, inventory records and habitudes that got desynchronized in the world of 2021, induce a harmonious chaos on loop, as seen in ten video works selected from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection.

Close Reading Series IV –
Burak Bedenlier: Bystander

This series of Close Readings emerged from a deficiency I observed both in contemporary art criticism and in my own writing practice: Although exhibition criticism, interviews, and monographic artist texts are produced regularly, focusing on a single work, interpreting, and analyzing that one work is a form we encounter less often.

Histories and Monsters: An Essay on the new collection exhibition of Borusan Contemporary, “Water Reverie”

“I see stares all day long, sundry stares” ¹
Bakmalar Denizi, Edip Cansever

Fully-intended But Non-Explanatory: An Interview with Frank Thiel

Frank Thiel is a German photographer who was born in the 1960s, in Kleinmachnow near Berlin, where he moved in the late 1980s to study photography.

Another Place / Another Present

Remembering Our Physicality:
An Interview with Mika Tajima

Those discerned by words, in the light of darkness

The neon text-image-sculpture of Sarkis, The Light of Darkness (2010) featured in the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection, diffuses a persistent light that embodies dependence, independence, immunity, consecution and, commitment.

Bitter Medicine Conversations:
Hybrid Reality, Immateriality Again in 21st Century

The conversation below, available online on YouTube here in Turkish, was edited for clarity.

Landscape is the perfect topic to fail: An Interview with Axel Hütte