İlker Ortaç / Work
The Arab Weekly: Savaşın Gerçek Bedeli
The Arab Weekly: Savaşın Gerçek Bedeli is one of the published texts in İlker Ortaç’s Work selection. The full text is read on the original publisher’s page.
From life to creative practice
Ilker Ortaç describes himself as a Marxist-Leninist writer, illustrator and visual artist. Identity and representation recur across his work. Reading a political figure’s portrait in this context does not attribute all of that figure’s positions to the artist.
From making to presentation
- Source work: this record retains its own title and available publication information.
- Portfolio context: biography and the work’s form are read together without confusing fiction with biography.
- Access: the relevant link opens the reading, viewing or publication record for this work.
From the studio: a creative reconstruction
A first-person creative reconstruction drawing on the biography and artworks.
I begin by imagining which comfort an image or sentence might disturb. I am not looking for a neat conclusion that explains everything. Shifting one detail a little can reveal how easily an accepted order was put together.
Working around The Arab Weekly: Savaşın Gerçek Bedeli, my attention returns to this detail: The Arab Weekly: Savaşın Gerçek Bedeli is one of the published texts in İlker Ortaç’s Work selection. The full text is read on the original publisher’s page. In the next passage, I imagine pulling back anything that weakens that encounter and leaving the areas holding its tension open for longer.
In the final passage, I imagine returning the work to its own context. I leave room for reading a page, looking at a frame or watching the film beyond the narrative assembled here.