There's No Space

The concept of home has been seen in multiple forms throughout history. From Adam and Eve covering themselves to Robinson Crusoe building himself a shed on an inhabited island. Private space, belonging only to the individual gives the individual a sense of trust not only in life, but also in narratives that try to make sense of life.

The destructive and continuous transformation of the age we live in has caused the concepts of identity and belonging to become more fluid. Naturally, “the home”, the place where these concepts were embodied, began to be questioned. Houses take their meanings from being isolated from the outside and indicating only an interior space, as well as its interaction with the city that surrounds itself and determines the relations between the houses. Thus, the rapid transformation experienced by cities with industrialization becomes determinant on houses.

According to Le Corbusier, one of the most important architects of urbanization, the house is expressed as “a machine to live in”. However, Le Corbusier mechanizes the house away from the concept of home. The concept of home is a place where the concepts of good and bad are learned rather than a commodity, organized around trust, containing multi-layered relationships such as family, neighbour, neighbourhood, identity and memory, and attributed sacredness.

The series ‘There’s No Space’ refers to the intermediate and anonymous spaces in the city while looking for the traces of the decaying and destroyed. It also reflects the fact that unplanned construction invades everywhere in the process of change and transformation in today’s cities. While the works take place in an almost dystopian world, they invite the question of past, present and future. The series focus on the concepts of urban belonging and identity in living spaces.