I’m Ali (1997, Istanbul), an artist and publisher based in Rome.

I’m interested in the in betweens, in the ambiguous, in images that do not resolve immediately, that remain open, that ask for time and attention.

I photograph and, from time to time, work with sound, but I mostly find myself in books. I make works driven by oneiric associations and move things mostly by gut feeling, until fragments of “the thing itself” and repetitions start hallucinating a broken narrative.

Sometimes I feel like I learn something about myself through my images, but it’s probably mostly projection, or some weird type of meditation.

I look for ways to create spaces where images can exist beyond their initial intention, where they can expand and take on new meanings through the viewer.