I’m Cross I’m not Playing

Naz Köktentürk who has witnessed nearly six years of Tarlabaşı until its destruction period by documenting its story through her camera and for sharing multicultural lifestyle of a district that is demolished and destroyed. The exhibition “I’m Cross I’m not Playing can be seen at Rezan Has Museum until March 31, 2014.

The “I’m Cross, I’m Not Playing” project is the story of six years that Naz Köktentürk experienced in Tarlabaşı until the demolition of the neighbourhood. The project consists of two sections, in the first section there are 35 mm black and white photos taken with a Leica M7, depicting the artist’s observations of lives of the people living in Tarlabaşı. And the photos in the second section, taken with a medium format Hasselblad, are based on a connotation; for this section she photographed the stencils made on the buildings as an act of revolt by the street artists, and did a collaborative collage work with the stencil artist Ari Alpert applying new stencils on eight of these photographs.