Allah=god
Ailem=My family
Bedenim=My body
KABA HAT
Ölüm=Death
Kül=Ashes
İşler=Works
Kalım=Life
Toprak=Earth
Arkadaşlar=Friends
Şeytan=Satan

Onur Ceritoğlu is an artist and an academic, trained as an architect. Based in Istanbul, he employs drawing, photography, video, and text to investigate urban phenomena, regenerating them in the context of socially engaged art practices. Often, he works with discarded found objects in his installations to re-contextualize the urban life through a material-driven experience. His ongoing PhD research is based on scrap dealers [Çıkmacılar] in the urban reconstruction of Istanbul as social infrastructures who salvage to be demolished buildings for reuse and recycling purposes.

Vasiyetimdir* is a publication project that aims to explore how artworks will subsist over long periods of time. Art works live in artist studios, private collections, museums, storage spaces, or simply in memories. But how far do the artists want to control what happens to their works when they are no longer? How do they want to exert their control? We directed these questions to the artists we are in dialogue with. We are accumulating their answers through m-est.org.

*Vasiyetimdir is a Turkish phrase that can roughly be translated into English as “It is my will that…” The phrase holds a tint of the melodramatic, mixed with a sentimental flair.

Vasiyetimdir was conceived by Aslı Çavuşoğlu, Özge Ersoy, and Merve Ünsal.