Paintings
2011-2013
2014-2016
2017-2019
2020-2022
Boy In the Boat
Story of Bella
Sculptures
Medusa
Merman
Manikins
Drawings
Ceramics
Prints
Art Direction
Bu Bir Rüya Değil-Tuğçe Şenoğul
Evocatio
Midnight Skull
Characters
Video
Sexual Therapist
Journal Safar Power Issue Cover
Performance
A Queer Gold Digger
Vuslat Arca
Barış Tatar
Future Is Genderless
Gucci
Hound of Eminönü
Intergalactic Anime Warrior
Katabassis
Koral Sagular
Not Looking For Husband
Woland and Their Hermes Bag
Yıkık
Others
Collaborations
Les Benjamins
Halloween C. C.
Collection Shoot
Store Installation
Friend Features
Nike x Les Benjamins x Altın Tatlı
Sketchbook
Videos
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Some of the watercolor paintings I made for “The Story of Bella”
(Film by Banu Yalkut Breddermann)
The film was showcased at The Quincentennial Foundation Museum of Turkish Jews.
Who is Bella Eskanazi?
As a Jew from Turkey, there are several things that make Bella’s personal history interesting; and these also shed light on to Turkey’s history, literature and names that have left their mark on their era.
Bella witnessed the exile of her journalist brother-in-law, Erol Güney, she inspired Orhan Veli Kanık (a very important Turkish poet who broke down the traditional rules of poetry in Turkish literature), she struggled to become a teacher at the Village Institute (because of her Jewish identity) and so on. Bella sheds light to Turkey of early 1900s and its missed opportunities.
While Bella strongly has love for Turkey, her memories reveal how the young stumbled and was disappointed in the hope that all different identities could exist together.