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My project for the 19th Istanbul Biennial (September 2025) takes as its starting point and is motivated by the story behind the monument The Worker (1973), formerly located in Tophane Park, which was repeatedly destroyed for 49 years during the various protests that took place in the city. Sometimes a leg was missing, then the head, and so on. During that same period, the artist who made the sculpture, Muzaffer Ertoran, was constantly called upon to restore it. For 49 years… When I learned about this story, a mixture of feelings and memories emerged in me.

The work for the Biennial was a cardboard sculptural installation that highlights the fragmentation to which the sculpture The Worker was subjected, with all its pieces scattered throughout the exhibition space. In addition, a non-fiction short film of 21:38 minutes, featuring an interview with Muzaffer, was projected in a space right next to the installation. In the mockumentary, he can be seen discussing the somewhat annoying case of his sculpture in the workshop, which was actually my own during the production of the Biennial piece. Alongside this conversation, images of the art action in Tophane Park, showing remnants of the mass-produced body parts and different pieces scattered around the city, are included.


IMAGES OF THE INSTALLATION AT THE 19th Istanbul Biennial 

FRAMES OF THE SHORT FILM

Previous drawing for Working Class

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