A world map that doesn’t quite behave like a map.
At first there is recognition: continents, borders, a familiar grid. But that certainty doesn’t hold. In parts of the surface, where land would normally be read, eyes appear. Not as illustration, but as if they were already there and only become visible through attention.
The map resists being read as a neutral overview. It begins to act back on the viewer.
In Conspiracy Wall > ANARTIST, Fahrettin Örenli looks at how images shift once they are read too closely. Representation does not remain stable; it starts to split into projection, memory, and misreading. These layers do not replace each other but operate at the same time.
One section is cut out of the page. A simple removal, without emphasis. Yet the absence interrupts the image more than the elements that remain.
From there, the map loses its function as system. What remains is a surface that keeps changing position as you look at it, without settling into one fixed reading.
About the artist’s book
Conspiracy Wall > ANARTIST connects Fahrettin Örenli’s literary practice (poetry) with his visual work (drawing and photography). The project explores how these different practices relate to one another and together form a framework for addressing complex human, social and political themes.
The artist’s book functions as a critical voice within contemporary culture and reflects on the position of the artist within both society and the art field.
In addition, the project examines the boundaries between drawing, photography and print, including the status of digital image-making and the question of what “computer drawing” might be. In doing so, the formal limits between disciplines are not only questioned but also shifted.
In this work, Fahrettin Örenli positions himself from a perspective shaped by living between different cultural backgrounds and environments. From this context, he develops the concept of the “anartist”: a position in which identity, context and artistic production are not fixed, but remain in constant motion.