Oscillating between visual silence and political weight, this work prompts reflection on the fragility and negotiability not only of what has been displaced, but also of what remains.

static nor sealed. It can be rewritten, reimagined, and re-visualized. With Material Witnesses, Berk Kır invites the viewer not only to revisit the past, but to question the very mechanisms through which we see and remember.

Rather than fixed identities anchored in place, the artist redefines heritage as a reflection of fragmented memory and shifting histories.This experimental interplay—between photography and archive, building material and trace of life, place and time—reminds us that cultural heritage is neither +

Through his method of digital exposure, Kır generates hybrid surfaces that offer a critical interface to the memory of Bozcaada—often approached through lenses of nostalgia or tourism.

archive of the “Bozcaada Center for Local History Research and Museum.” In doing so, he establishes a permeable ground between the tactile residues of the past and the gazes and bodies that have borne witness across time.

These bricks are repositioned not merely as structural elements, but as tangible witnesses to invisible histories and silenced claims of belonging. The artist collects these historical bricks through online auctions and overlays their surfaces with photographs of everyday life selected from the +

Material Witnesses traces not only a sense of spatial belonging, but also historical imprints, language, and unseen testimonies. In this work, Kır approaches architecturally embedded, Greek-stamped bricks found on the island as cultural archives.