Yekta Çetinkaya: Wishes from Hereafter

Yekta Çetinkaya: Wishes from Hereafter
April 15-30, 2024
Artengine Studio, 67 Nicholas Street

Opening reception
Thursday April 18, 5PM-8PM

Wishes from Hereafter came to life through a residency at Artengine
and will be on view from April 15 until April 30, with a reception on
Thursday, April 18, from 5 to 8 pm.

A work of speculative fiction, Wishes from Hereafter contemplates
through a diasporic lens the future of cultural traditions and rituals
that are primarily informed by nature and land amid climate change,
wars, and rapid globalization.

Artist Bio:
Yekta Çetinkaya is an emerging visual artist from Istanbul, Turkey,
living and working in Ottawa. Çetinkaya's practice encompasses
painting, sculpture, and installation. Weaving together languages of
ancestral technology, scientific manuscripts, Anatolian visual
culture, and narratives related to navigation, migration, and
journeying, Çetinkaya's works are introductions to other stories,
which exist in past, present, and future, traversing within and
between cultures, communities, and histories. His research-based art
practice initiates negotiations between historical narratives of
multiple perspectives, destabilizing the entrenched colonial history
of discovery and progress, and generating new knowledge for the
future.