de te fabula narratur - Iteration IV
Yapı Kredi Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey, 2025
As part of Do You Remember the Scent of Spring?
This iteration grows out of my migration trilogy: Welcomed to Germany? (2018), Look, Listen Carefully (2021), and The Story Told Is Yours (2023). Each film traces a different experience of migration, reflecting the shifting ground of my own political subjectivity. For this installation, the work is reformulated for the façade of Yapı Kredi, situated on Istanbul’s most iconic and busiest pedestrian artery. Rendered in mirrored stickers on glass and marble, the text shifts in and out of visibility with the movement of the crowd, allowing these voices to become visible within the city’s most intense public flow. As one’s reflection merges with the stories of others, the boundary between self and narrative dissolves, refusing distance and insisting that this story, too, is yours.
de te fabula narratur - Iteration III
Lektwo Gallery & Sołacki Park, Poznań, Poland, 2024
As part of the From the East to the East
Migration stories from Ukrainians in Poland and newcomers to Berlin inscribed onto natural stones, first exhibited at Lektwo Gallery and then installed as a permanent work in Sołacki Park, Poznań. The stones carry the words of people from different backgrounds who have experienced displacement, with a focus on the testimonies of Ukrainian women from Kolektyw Grupa Analog, forced to flee Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
de te fabula narratur - Iteration II (video & installation)
Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (2023)As part of the exhibition Beyond Home
Single Channel Video (52’43") & site-specific installation
With the participation of: Gizem Akman, Mariia Kulchytska, Melika Akbariasl aka likabari, Miguel Buenrostro, Najwa Ahmed, Nathalia Favaro,
Nour Sokhon, Ramin Parwin, Ziyad Hawwas.
Newcomers from nine different countries who moved to Berlin in the last decade share first-person narratives, woven into a video accompanied by an installation. Selected quotes from the film are inscribed onto the original bricks of Kunstquartier Bethanien, letting these words stumble upon the viewer as they move through the space. The work pays tribute to Gunter Demnig's Stolpersteine project.
de te fabula narratur - Iteration I
Museum Lichtenberg im Stadthaus, Berlin / Permanent work, Berlin, 2021
As part of Kindred Chronicles
Quotes from my film Welcomed to Germany? (2018), which listens to stories from the new wave of migration from Turkey to Germany, are inscribed in German, Turkish, and English onto the bricks of Lichtenberg City Museum. This work experiments with transferring and translating the material of a film onto an architectural surface in public space, making personal narratives a permanent part of the city’s facade.
