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.  

Here, that desire is encoded into the installation itself. The participant is invited to make their own cup of coffee, to complete the ritual, to read the signs. The difference is that the outcome is never in doubt: the future, as it appears in the residue at the bottom of the cup, will always be good.  

‘neyse halim cıksın falim’