We began a collaborative artistic process that focused on how the unseen, unsaid, and forgotten are part of an obstacle to furthering narratives. The status of objects and subjects is ambivalent due to the existence of the present and the role we play in our history. Current narratives are playfully exchanged, and symbols are gestures in an ever-changing flow of things.

The methodology of the project we are approaching is a very playful act with what we have to offer as two artists meeting and inviting each other’s perspectives. The venue of the Mahalla Festival, the old closed elementary Greek school Kurtuluş Son Durak, plays into both what is created and the context of the encounters in which we become entangled.

The materials used can come from different areas. We find them in Istanbul’s markets, bazaars, stores, streets, and so on: fabrics, paper, clothes, and remnants of all cultural artifacts brought together to be referenced, a starting point for conversations, stencils, and models to put something on flat surfaces, as paper and/or fabrics stretched on canvases.