Collecist Selection
Untamed Production
Is it possible to resist the image, with images?
Twenty-nine artists answered the call. We were not looking for the well-made, but for work that holds the viewer where they stumble, not where they settle.
Three threads run through the selection: the covered body, the objects of the home, and the night. The ten artists are not ranked; their names follow the alphabet, each with the same weight.
Alper F Seven · Batınay Ünsür · Eren Kenar · Gülsüm Önder Kobal · Hazal Arol · İlke İmer · Keziban Kibar · Sevinç Orman · Şevval Aksu · Zeynep Şeker
Alper F Seven
An overturned car in the night. The landscape breaks.
Working from his studio in Ankara for over twenty years. His night landscapes build a familiar scene and leave one thing inside that breaks it; here, an overturned car.
Night Landscape (Overturned Mercedes)
Oil on canvas
Batınay Ünsür
He shoots first and writes the meaning in the edit.
He reverses cinema's usual order: image first, meaning later. He calls himself not a director but a "gatherer".
Grejuva, 2026
Video
Eren Kenar
Unfinished figures; painting shows its own machinery.
Instead of whole stories he builds fragmented narratives. Frame, easel, studio and museum often become the very subject of his canvases.
Smoking Bluffer, 2026
Oil on canvas, 140 × 160 cm
Gülsüm Önder Kobal
Passing through everything that has been named.
Passage Corridor (Limbo), 2026, installation
Hazal Arol
Myths retold on wood.
She works in her İzmir studio in oil on wood and paper, pencil and ceramics. In her series, old tales turn into strange allegories of the present.
North Wind, 2026
Oil on wood, from The North series
İlke İmer
A trace between photograph, text and body.
An artist and researcher working between Istanbul and Berlin. In her long-exposure analogue photographs the image does not represent; it remembers.
No Image, Image, 2025
Analogue photograph
Keziban Kibar
Shifting, doubled faces. The gaze never settles.
She works in oil, collage and relief print. The second pair of eyes she adds to her portraits keeps the image from settling into a single face.
The Other Me
Oil on canvas
Sevinç Orman
The household lace wraps around the body.
She uses her own body as both subject and material. Crocheted lace from the dowry chest becomes veil, hood and bind in her photographs.
Heirloom, 2026
Archival pigment print, 70 × 100 cm
Şevval Aksu
The room of someone at odds with images.
In gouache on paper she builds a room of floating objects: a fairy-tale book with no words, a paper shredder, two feet under a cloth. In her own words: every resistance lasts a single day.
In the Same Room as the Image, 2025–2026
Three parts, gouache on paper
Zeynep Şeker
A hanging carcass, and a woman who looks back.
On two metres of paper, a hanging carcass, and beneath it a tiny woman. The white space between them is the real subject.
White Surface
Oil on paper, 105 × 200 cm
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