WHAT IF?

Elusive art critic Trexit Salvador chooses 30 questions to interrogate the art community in Turkey and reveal his love for the world of art on the sly.


ÇETİN CEM YILMAZ

The music and popular culture publication Çekme Kaset, which began its journey as a blog in the 2000s, later reached its dedicated audience through a column in Blue Jean magazine, a radio…


Lara Lakay

A writer and artist with a focus on cultures, images, and histories. A globetrotter with a soft spot for all port cities, but Istanbul is the apple of her eye. Lara Lakay, from the…


Ayşe Övür

As the author of the novels Botter Apartmanı, Sahara 1911, and Zamanın Kapıları, Ayşe Övür is an intriguing storyteller but also an archeologist passionate about Istanbul. Known for her…


Begüm Başoğlu

Co-author of the books Sade and Müşterek Düşünceler, a passionate reader and the curator of Vitali Hakko Creative Industries Library, Begüm Başoğlu shares her love for books through a…


A LOVE LETTER TO NEW YORK AND THOUGHTS ON NFT CRAZE FROM ARTIST DUO HA:AR

New work by the creative duo ha:ar (composed of sculptor Hande Şekerciler and new media artist Arda Yalkın) will appear at London’s JD Malat Gallery. Open between 13 January and 12…


Burçak Bingöl

Burçak Bingöl is a unique artist specialising in an array of disciplines including ceramics, video, drawing, photography and installation… In her love letter, she shares her feelings for…


Huo Rf & Huma Kabakcı

Artist Huo Rf and independent curator Huma Kabakcı wrote a love letter to Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin who has been an inspiration for Huo Rf’s “Homotopia” polaroid series which was to be a…


HANDE OYNAR

Writer, healer and a real New Yorker Hande Oynar declares her love to the “extraordinary” city.


MELİKE ALTINIŞIK

An architect; Melike Altınışık writes a love letter to the highest architects of all – cosmos!