A series of unsanctioned, site-specific inscriptions written in lipstick on museum restroom mirrors, each beginning with “The museum is…” to reflect, distort, and confront the institution’s presence, politics, and self-image as an artist.
The museum is a bank — SALT Beyoğlu, Istanbul, 2025.
Written in lipstick on a restroom mirror, this unsanctioned intervention folds the building’s history as the Ottoman Bank into its present cultural role, asking what forms of capital the institution still accumulates — and for whom.
The museum is gentrification — Arter, Istanbul, 2025.
Lipstick on a restroom mirror. This intervention names the institution not as neutral, but as an active engine of displacement and capital in Dolapdere.