The Memory of the Sieve

The first artist of the Artist Residency project created by the Art for Goodness Association in cooperation with the Kenan Yavuz Ethnography Museum was Loya Kader Öztürkmen, our artist for the fourth semester of One Year in the Passage.

About The Artist

Born in Denizli, the artist secretly took the exam in the city where he lives despite all the pressures of his surroundings and earned a Painting-Business Teaching Position at Pamukkale University Faculty of Education in 2009. he was appointed in 2015 and settled in Istanbul. He is continuing his master's degree education at the Painting department of the Faculty of Fine Arts of Trakya University. Having participated in many group exhibitions, fairs, international symposiums and various projects both at home and abroad, the artist's paths crossed with the Art for Goodness Association in 2021 and Nedret Sekban took part in the One Year project in the Passage under the coordination of Aslı Özok.

About the Artist Residency

The theme of the project, which was organized for the first time at the Kenan Yavuz Ethnography Museum, was determined as “The Memory of the Sieve”.

Our Sieve Memory Project is a journey from the hands of Anatolian women who hold sieves with the healing that the soil offers to life. The Screens used by the artist in his practice have now become the focus of the project.

On the outer surface of the sieve there are sections from the movement of the hands of the Anatolian woman who cultivates the soil, while on the inner surface the medicinal endemic plants of the region offer the colors of Bayburt.