Turkish Pavilion at 2024 Venice Biennale

Artist's Statement: What I am dealing with is a state of the world: hollowed out to the core as a result of wars, earthquakes, migrations, and nuclear peril unleashed at every turn, threatening humankind while nature is being ceaselessly scathed and the environment sickened. I attempt to physically and emotionally summon into existence this phenomenon: the emptiness, the hollowness, the brokenness produced by the devastations turned ordinary by the order of the day, whose pace becomes ever more impossible to keep up with, by the unimaginable griefs that keep striking, one after the next at relentless intervals, by empty values, identity struggles, and brittle human relationships.