Back to Memphis by Emre Yıldız

Publisher: Darağaç, İzmir, 2023 

Format: Softcover, 170 × 240 mm

Pages: 64

Back to Memphis brings together a series of drawings by Emre Yıldız that navigate the visual territory between memory, mythology, music, and contemporary urban experience. Produced within the context of the İzmir-based Darağaç collective, the publication layers symbolic figures, fragmented narratives, and references to popular culture into a poetic visual language that resists linear reading. Rather than illustrating a single story, the book unfolds as an open sequence of associations, where each page operates as an autonomous image while contributing to a broader constellation of recurring motifs. Back to Memphis reflects Yıldız’s ongoing practice of transforming drawing into a space where personal mythology and collective memory continuously intersect.