Mother Goddess, a clay figurine dating from 6000 BCE, was excavated by James Mellaart in 1961 in Çatalhöyük, Turkey and soon became a national symbol…
Mother Goddess, a clay figurine dating from 6000 BCE, was excavated by James Mellaart in 1961 in Çatalhöyük, Turkey and soon became a national symbol…
In Long Ago Person Found (2015), Çavusoglu reflects upon the ways that human remains—particularly of populations that have been persecuted—are transformed when they become study objects…
Woman With a Hat draws on Turkish modernization and the reforms realized by Ataturk during the rebellions of 1920s. With the new laws, the Fez…
Sculptures of Alexander the Great are perhaps the most symbolic indicators of the ongoing animosity between Greece and the Republic of Macedonia—a country that came…
The Stones Talk consists of 71 objects that are the reconstructions of archaeological artefacts. The archaeological artefacts selected for the exhibition were discovered at various…
Islands, from 2005, an installation consisting of five drawings each accompanied by an individual story, and photographs of ten three-dimensional models of the drawings. These…
Dominance of Shadow consists of the installation of fake film posters on 18 different billboards in Istanbul, each chosen by the artist. The graphic on…
Archival Pigment Print, 120×180 cm Photo: Gençer Yurttaş
Murder in Three Acts is a scripted crime drama rehearsed, performed, and filmed during Frieze Art Fair 2012 in the framework of Frieze Projects. The first…
*In collaboration with Francesco Pedraglio. ‘I have built my case…’ is a half-hour long scripted dialogue split into the hybrid formats of a generic lecture,…