Kezban Baskı

Visual Artist

Kezban Baskı (Ankara, Turkey) studied Pharmacy and is a self-taught visual artist.
She is currently pursuing a PhD in pharmacology and has been drawing and painting since an early age.

 

The small picture I choose to see is one of the infinite forms the world can take as it transforms, and we should always remember that.

— Kezban Baskı

3 questions for Kezban

 

Where in the world is the biggest systemic fault?

Goals always look forward. If you're 24th in the queue, you aim to be 8th. If you are 3rd in the class, you want to be 1st. However, being 6th is very difficult. Aiming to be 6th is difficult, you have to know your competitors well, keep up your relationship warm and learn to evaluate your competitors in order to learn how much they studied for the exam. Those that come 1st never say that they wish they had come 13th.

We cannot look back, we always have to look forward. If we had eyes behind our heads, we could set our goals differently. If others hadn't set the goals from the very beginning, we would at least be able to look back. If we could look back, we wouldn't be greedy, we would know ourselves better. We would know that being 6th is not bad at all.

Is it our primitive nature or our greed to consume, that whispers to us at every step that the strongest, the #1 has a high probability of surviving? Every moment, I see people with sledgehammers in their hands, there is a big crack/fault in the system, they are all after a broken bed of their own on the crust of the world.

What would be the shape of an earthquake?

Each one of us has learned that if we are not strong enough, we will perish. Sometimes with fear, sometimes with greed, we slam the sledgehammers in our hands; the crust of the world has cracked in many places. All the cracks we live in, small or large, are now melding together, the crust of the earth beneath us is trembling and shaking our broken bed, which we think is our sole property.

There is an earthquake shaking the world, so stop looking ahead and watch from afar for just a minute. When you receive that shock on the earth's crust, which is filled with tiny lines touching each other, and on which you think your bed stands, the line you call ‘mine’ will seem strange even to you.

What should we protect?

When I look at a piazza, I cannot calculate how many images there are within the duration of my gaze, how many separate images I see at that moment. Even when I simply want to see, I cannot see beyond the world I have framed, what is happening a few meters away. There is another world one meter away from the one I see at that moment, and I cannot choose to see the one or the other. The small picture I choose to see is one of the infinite forms the world can take as it transforms, and we should always remember that.

In his greed to look only forward, man exacerbates his innate blindness. While trying to prove his power over the world, he does not see what lies behind him. Those who will eventually destroy the world will be those who do not have the presence of mind to turn their heads, those who are not aware of their actual field of vision.

 

How we met Kezban

We ran an open call from the 24th of May to the 18th of June 2021.
We selected eleven projects that explore contemporary discontinuities using the medium of text, photography, illustration or drawing.
Kezban Baskı submitted the project Possibility which was selected to be included and published in the first issue of chumbo — our printed magazine dedicated to creative research. 

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