Fahrettin Örenli – Conspiracy Wall > ANARTIST
Conspiracy Wall > ANARTIST by Fahrettin Örenli is an artist’s book in which poetry, essays, and visual work come together in a non-linear structure. Text and image shift in relation to one another, making reading a spatial and material experience as well.
Poems in Dutch, English, and Turkish (without translation) appear in varnish and in gold and silver foil. Language is not only read but also seen: as a surface of fragments, sheen, and concealment. Across 158 pages, a rhythm of interruption, repetition, and shift unfolds.
Texts by Lex ter Braak (The Phantom Called Life), November Paynter (A Selfish Evolution), and Fahrettin Örenli (Conspiracy Wall ANARTIST) connect the work to philosophical, poetic, and speculative perspectives. French folds and perforated pages make the book physical and adaptable: images can be revealed, opened, or rearranged.
The artist’s book forms a coherent yet changeable system of reading and meaning.
Conspiracy Wall > ANARTIST can also be extended into an installation. The book is translated into a wall of silkscreen prints, photographic fragments, and text. Image and language are placed side by side, without hierarchy.
The installation follows the same logic as the book: no fixed order, but a structure that can be reordered and reassembled. Reading, looking, and moving come together in a single spatial experience.
“Anartist” functions as a position rather than an identity. Örenli works between Amsterdam and Istanbul, where contexts intersect without resolving into one another.
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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.