No Place to Visit / Gezilemeyecek Görülemeyecek Yerler

The project No Place to Visit centers on sites within the Kaleiçi district, where the artist spent her childhood. While seeking to bring visibility to these overlooked spaces in the historic Hisar area, the work draws upon a deeply personal and cultural tool: the traditional handcrafts once practiced by the women of the neighborhood. These crafts, once subtle acts of presence and expression, become the project’s primary medium.

By subverting the familiar phrase “a place to visit,” the project questions what constitutes visibility, value, and memory in urban space. Through a deliberate inversion of this tourism-driven language, it opens a new route, one that sheds light on hidden histories and overlooked narratives.

Bringing together two forms of invisibility, the project turns this convergence into a strategy for visibility. In doing so, it touches upon broader themes such as the preservation of monuments and the transmission of cultural heritage.