Yunivorks

11/02/2026

“Resettlement” (2025)

Mixed media on paper

Various sizes

This drawing series emerged in parallel with the artist’s ceramic works focusing on the Seyhan River and other related productions. The drawings address states of separation, dissolution, and reassembly of the riverbed at a moment in time and space that cannot be precisely located. Fluid layers of color and fragile contours generate in-between forms oscillating between geological processes and architectural imagination. Some drawings evoke abstract architectural plans or sections describing an imagined settlement, while others read as surfaces carrying the memory of stone, water, and sediment. Together, these works suggest the river not merely as a geographical entity, but as a spatial organism in constant transformation and resettlement.

* This artwork is part of the project titled “Someone Who Has Never Known This River.” The project was produced within the scope of the SaDe Program (Artist Support Fund) carried out by and .

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"Yeniden Yerleşim" (2025)

Kağıt üzerine karışık teknik

Çeşitli boyutlar

Bu çizim serisi, sanatçının Seyhan Nehri’ne odaklanan seramik üretimleri ve eş zamanlı gelişen diğer çalışmalarıyla birlikte ortaya çıkmıştır. Çizimler; nehir yatağının ayrışma, çözülme ve yeniden birleşme hâllerini, zamanı ve mekânı kesin olarak belirlenemeyen bir anda ele alır. Akışkan renk katmanları ve kırılgan konturlar, jeolojik süreçlerle mimari tahayyül arasında gidip gelen ara formlar üretir. Bazı çizimler, soyut bir yerleşimi tarif eden mimari kesitleri ya da planları çağrıştırırken; bazıları, taşın, suyun ve tortunun hafızasını taşıyan yüzeyler gibi okunur. Bu işler, nehrin yalnızca bir coğrafi oluşum değil, sürekli yeniden yerleşen ve dönüşen bir mekânsal organizma olduğunu ima eder.

*Bu çizim serisi, “Bu Nehri Hiç Bilmeyen Biri” başlıklı projenin bir parçasıdır. Proje, ve tarafından yürütülen SaDe Programı (Sanatçı Destek Fonu) kapsamında üretilmiştir.

📸: 1,2,3 --- Fatih Yılmaz

11/02/2026

“Reveries of the Fluvial Palimpsest” (2025)

Mixed media on paper, wooden structure

112 × 174 cm

This drawing depicts a dreamlike field in which images emerging from the artist’s research on the Seyhan River intertwine with the process of artistic production. The river’s continuously rewritten structure—shaped by floods, interruptions, and human interventions—appears as a fluvial palimpsest through layered lines and overlapping forms. The supporting structure is inspired by the abstracted form of a dam that interrupts the river’s flow. The vertical bar in the foreground represents a measuring device that has lost its function and meaning; it no longer measures water, time, or flow. Stripped of its authority, it stands as a suspended marker—an echo of the desire to control—holding images as if caught by the dam itself. The images within the drawing share this state of suspension, oscillating between movement and stasis.

07/02/2026

Hydromorphological Body (2025)

Mixed media on paper

112 × 190 cm

This drawing is informed by the textures, traces of flow, and formations encountered by the artist during research conducted along the bed of the Seyhan River. Rather than functioning as a direct representation, the work establishes a metaphorical relationship with the river—one that unfolds through bodily movement and the act of drawing itself. Working on a large-scale surface, the artist incorporates the body into the flow, creating a permeable structure between personal memory, the surrounding geography, and an ongoing attempt to relate to the river. Through lines that settle onto the surface, the drawing renders visible both the traces left by the river and the artist’s sustained engagement with these marks.

This artwork is part of the project titled “Someone Who Has Never Known This River.” The project was produced within the scope of the SaDe Program (Artist Support Fund) carried out by and .

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📸: 1,2,3 --- Cemil Çalkıc

05/02/2026

“In Search of a Post-Fluvial Topography" (2024)

Metal structures, plaster, copper (II) sulfate, iron powder

50 × 23 × 22 cm; 25 × 25.5 × 23 cm; 28 × 20.5 × 23 cm; 50.5 × 32 × 22.5 cm

In Search of a Post-Fluvial Topography (2024) traces the contours of a landscape that has lost its flow following the regulation of the Seyhan River’s water cycle through dams. The metal structures evoke redirected and constrained movement, while plaster suggests suspended and immobilized surfaces. Copper (II) sulfate and iron powder undergo ongoing chemical reactions, revealing topography not as a fixed form but as a material process in continuous transformation. The work also functions as the mold for the ceramic series titled Proto-Topographic Fluvial Flow. Rather than representing a fluvial system directly, it operates as its negative form—an imprint, a memory, and a potential for re-emergence. The tension between the post-fluvial and the proto-fluvial opens up a space of searching, where river topography oscillates between loss and the desire to materially recall an irretrievable natural flow.

* This artwork is part of the project titled “Someone Who Has Never Known This River.” The project was produced within the scope of the SaDe Program (Artist Support Fund) carried out by and .

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📸: 1,4,5,6 --- Fatih Yılmaz ; 2,3 --- Cemil Çalkıcı

04/02/2026

“Proto-Topographic Fluvial Flow” (2024)

Ceramic

31 × 17 × 12 cm; 28 × 14 × 10 cm; 29 × 16 × 5 cm; 17 × 9 × 4 cm; 9 × 7.5 × 4 cm; 19 × 8 × 4 cm; 21 × 14 × 4 cm

Proto-Topographic Fluvial Flow is based on a research conducted in the riverbed of the Seyhan River during a period when its flow was interrupted by dams. Stones, soil, urban debris, and accumulations of dead organisms encountered in the dried and receding riverbed reveal the river as a system that flows not only through water but also through material residues. Formed in ceramic, the works embody provisional and unstable states of the riverbed—conditions that have not yet solidified into fixed topography. These fragments evoke both the remnants left behind by the halted flow and a mnemonic process in which the absent river appears to recall its own bed, attempting to reconstitute itself as landscape. Here, flow is not presented as a completed geography but as an ongoing, proto-topographic process shaped by interruption, memory, and material transformation.

* This artwork is part of the project titled “Someone Who Has Never Known This River.” The project was produced within the scope of the SaDe Program (Artist Support Fund) carried out by and .

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📸: 1,3,4,5,9 --- Fatih Yılmaz ; 2,6,7,8 --- Cemil Çalkıcı

03/02/2026

“Fragile Continuity” (2025)

EPS (expanded polystyrene), calcium carbonate, plaster, binding agent, copper(II) sulfate, iron powder, hydrogen peroxide, salt, metal and wooden structure

334 × 194 × 212 cm

This installation takes as its point of departure an unfinished sarcophagus in the ancient city of Anavarza, exploring the notions of time, absence, and transformation. The incomplete form is not read merely as an object left unfinished by human hands, but as a surface continuously reshaped by geological and hydromorphological processes, environmental forces, and the interventions of both human and more-than-human agents. Repetitive layers generate a structure that oscillates between the mold and the act of breaking free from it. The sarcophagus ceases to function as a fixed monument and instead becomes part of a living, permeable, and multi-scalar process.

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"Kırılgan Süreklilik" (2025)

EPS (genleştirilmiş polistiren), kalsiyum karbonat, alçı, bağlayıcı madde, bakır (II) sülfat, demir tozu, hidrojen peroksit, tuz, metal ve ahşap strüktür

334 x 194 x 212 cm

Bu yerleştirme, Anavarza Antik Kenti’nde yarım kalmış bir lahitten yola çıkarak zaman, eksiklik ve dönüşüm kavramlarını ele alır. Tamamlanmamış form, yalnızca insan eliyle yarıda bırakılmış bir nesne değil; jeolojik ve hidromorfolojik süreçler, çevresel etkiler ve insan-insan olmayan varlıkların müdahaleleriyle sürekli yeniden şekillenen bir yüzey olarak okunur. Tekrar eden katmanlar, kalıp ve kalıptan çıkma hâli arasında gidip gelen bir yapı oluşturur. Lahit, sabit bir anıt olmaktan çıkarak yaşayan, geçirgen ve çok ölçekli bir sürecin parçasına dönüşür.
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📸: 1,2,4 --- Fatih Yılmaz; 3 --- Cemil Çalkıcı

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