No Entry Construction Site

The installation makes a reference to the initial and most comprehensive urban transformation project in Istanbul, the Ayazma Tepeustu Urban Transformation Project. Residents of Kucukcekmece were evicted from their residences and following cleansing their neighborhood were delivered into the hands of developers who undertook impressive projects becoming a world class city. This cabinet that might belong to a family from Ayazma would let us go into their reality.

The installation “No entry construction site” deals with the slums in Kucukcekmece, one of the most crowded districts of Istanbul, and criticizes the issue of comprehensive urban transformation that started with the wave of neoliberalism in the 80s.