During the 9th Residency Programme at SAHA Studio

I've recently been focusing on migration and the contexts in which the craftsmanship transmitted through migration can be addressed, as well as themes such as ghosts, restlessness and assuming life. The paintings, sculptures and installations I create from a personal point with respect to contemporary archaeological practices can be considered as gestures that resist the ways of living imposed by society and the environment through semi-fictional interventions.

I present a series of works that I constructed by incorporating archival and oral findings from my trip to Skopje during the SAHA Studio term into my personal history, which I now consider to be verging on fiction: In a historical interval starting from the 1950s, various references such as those which were carried along during the migration, the unspoken stories, a door that has been ingrained to my mind since childhood, come together in an installation of oil paintings and sculptures. These works are accompanied by a publication that I show as a sketch spread on the walls of the space.