I don’t want to receive bad news,
I prefer to just sit in the sun, 2023

Installation consisting of ceramics,
coffee powder, water, wood and metal

"I don’t want to receive bad news, I prefer to just sit in the sun" is a performative installation that operates somewhere between ritual and object theatre.

The work consists of fifty originally hand-built ceramic cups and saucers, two ceramic vessels filled with Turkish coffee and water, a manual, an electric stove, a cevze, a spoon, a wooden table, two wooden plates. A list of symbols lies nearby - an alphabet for coincidence.  
Turkish coffee readings have existed for centuries. The act is as much about the ritual as the interpretation: the turning of the cup, the waiting, the reading. Like other forms of divination, it is a transaction between uncertainty and reassurance. People want to be told what they already suspect; they want their luck confirmed.  

‘neyse halim cıksın falim’