25 September 2026ISSN 3150-0757
1. Who is Omer Eken, and what defines your artistic practice? There is a journey that begins with your childhood in Silvan, continues through Diyarbakir Fine Arts High School and Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, and leads to your studio…
Although batik is often regarded as a traditional technique associated primarily with textile production, throughout the twentieth century it evolved—particularly in Southeast Asia—into an independent field of pictorial expression through the interventions of artists. The use of wax to create…
1. For a reader encountering Delal Tekin and your work for the first time, could you tell us a little about yourself? How did your relationship with art begin, and what keeps you painting today? My relationship with art was…
French director Tony Gatlif, who brought Romani culture, migration, exile and the search for freedom together with music, has died at the age of 77. When Tony Gatlif comes to mind, what emerges first is not a particular cinematic genre…
“The first seed of justice lies hidden in the morsel that falls to the share of a hungry person.” From the moment humanity appeared on the stage of history, it did not merely seek to preserve its existence; it also…
ABSTRACT Hope consists of expectations greater than zero regarding the fulfilment of a future goal (Rideout and Montemuro, 1986). Its most important characteristic is the belief that there is a way out and that, with help, changes can occur in…
I am cold in every season. I have no home, no roof beneath which I can take shelter when it rains. I cannot speak; I cannot ask for help. What is more, every second I spend on the streets, I…
The death of Yayoi Kusama is not only the end of a long artistic life, but also an opportunity to look again at the legacy left by one of contemporary art’s most recognisable figures. Dots, mirrors, nets and pumpkins are…
1. Let’s begin by getting to know you. We met at the 6th Mardin Biennial, but I would like to hear you describe yourself in your own words. Looking back from your childhood to today, what was at the beginning…
Fly, fly and fly Sun, earth and moon tonight… I know some shadows there, Then they believes, Me, you and us, Us and Them¡ Thanks a lot, Pink Floyd¡ Floy¿
Who Does the Night Belong To? A reading of modern urban life, loneliness, and visibility through Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks. A painting’s resistance to time cannot be explained solely by its aesthetic power. Some works move beyond the period in which…
Memory, Space and the Human in Gunes Kaplan’s Photography Beyond the Photograph: A Way of Looking Some photographs do not simply show a place; they make us feel what once happened there. In the surface of a wall, the texture…
