Questioning the established will to categorize art practices along the artist’s geographical or national indication, did not appear on my agenda all of a sudden on a sunny Sunday afternoon.
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Fatos Üstek: In your work, the issues you choose to focus on create their own significance, and you don’t interpret them but open them up to further interventions. Do you see yourself as an artist who brings out the potential of the circumstances you address in your works?
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The article Has been published on www.turbulens.net with images of works of the mentioned artists. The part of the article has been published in the exhibition catalogue Fokus Istanbul: Urban Realities, Martin Gropious Bau, 2005. The part of the article on the artists have been published in Tema Celeste, 2006 issue 141.
The need to define and evaluate in concrete terms has been a necessary and sufficient aspect of language and culture.
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