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Author: m-est editor
Conversation: Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung with Gökcan Demirkazık
Naz Cuguoglu
How do we archive feelings? Imagine an archive that does not only preserve knowledge but also feelings. Queer history needs not only an archive but an archive of emotions that can document intimacy, sexuality, love, and activism.
Vahap Avşar in conversation with Merve Ünsal
Onur Ceritoğlu
I only saw photographs of Cengiz Çekil’s Exhibition / Installation (Şantiye Sanat Galerisi, İzmir, 1994). The altars and grave markers in Tanned Jackets and Winners—two works from this exhibition—, I feel, are predecessors to the body of work Northern Forests by KABA HAT, the artist collective that I’m part of.
Nisa Ari
In translating Kemal’s metaphorical story into its literal substances, Çekil reveals how the desire to make myths is not extraordinary or divinely inspired.
Özge Ersoy
Through the work, Çekil produces a distancing effect towards the outside world, creating a ‘safe’ space to think about and look outside, where there are no eye contacts or one-on-one encounters.
