Opera

City no.57: Halic Shipyard

2026

Tecnica

Mix Media

Artista

selcen karatay

Turkey

Sull'opera

City no.52 — Haliç Shipyard reworks the artist’s own black-and-white photographic print from a decade-long archive of the site, developed while working there as an architect before and during its transformation. As the shipyard was gradually replaced by a new and highly polished urban lifestyle, the archive became a way of preserving other possible versions of the place. Acrylic, ink, fabric and stitching shift the image beyond documentation, layering the physical site with memory and surreal possibilities. Rather than reconstructing the past, the work allows one of the many alternative versions of the shipyard to emerge — imagined, perhaps surreal, but in memory sometimes more real than the version that ultimately replaced it.