Contemporary Art · Istanbul · 2026
look.closer
Everyone looks, few truly see. An art practice built on figures that belong to this world in unexpected ways — and the language of colour.
Everyone looks, few truly see. An art practice built on figures that belong to this world in unexpected ways — and the language of colour.
Each month, a small artwork arrives at your door — printed by hand, packed with care, shipped from Istanbul. Sometimes a print, sometimes a vintage-framed piece. Always something made with intention.
Along with it comes that month's writing — a note on what I was thinking, making, or noticing. Not a newsletter. Something closer.
Leave your email — I'll reach out when the first box is ready.
I’m Öykü, Istanbul-based a multidisciplinary artist and landscape architect. I’m interested in everyday images, emotional contradictions, fleeting observations, and the possibility that every ordinary moment can shift through a different perspective.
My drawings transform familiar scenes into exaggerated fragments — somewhere between memory, fiction, and daily life.
look.closer is a space for collecting these moments.
From above, it's a table — plates, glasses, expected guests. A gathering ritual painted with vibrant acrylic and oil pastel; here, the everyday becomes ceremonial.