Safları Sıklaştırmak / Closing the Ranks (2009–2011) by Borga Kantürk

Publisher: BAS, Istanbul, 2011

Format: Softcover, 210 × 148 mm

Pages: 80

ISBN: 978-605-88768-0-4

Safları Sıklaştırmak / Closing the Ranks (2009–2011) brings together a body of work produced by Borga Kantürk between 2009 and 2011, examining the visual and ideological mechanisms through which political identities, collective memory, and social narratives are constructed. Combining drawing, collage, archival material, photography, and installation documentation, the publication traces the artist’s sustained interest in propaganda, bureaucracy, education, and the production of historical knowledge. Rather than functioning as a conventional exhibition catalogue, the book operates as an evolving archive in which documents, images, and visual interventions are reorganised to expose the fragile boundaries between official history and personal memory. Reflecting Kantürk’s research-based practice, Closing the Ranks positions the artist’s book itself as a critical space where collecting, editing, and reinterpretation become artistic methods.