Avesta Yayınları Walid Siti Babil’in Gölgesinde Dağların Peşinde / Fatih Tan / Avesta Yayınları / 9786255535122

Avestart's first publication is dedicated to contemporary south kurdish artist walid siti. the authors, fatih tan and mahsum çiçek, are artists whose work we've been following on various art platforms and media channels for some time now.

"following the mountains in the shadow of babil aims to examine siti's exile life, political background, and philosophical approaches in art production in detail. siti is an artist who builds a political and cultural memory by bringing concepts such as border, migration, identity, and space together with architectural forms, geometric structures, and abstract aesthetics. tan and çiçek aim to explain how walid siti's art constructs an aesthetic around themes of kurdish identity, exile experience, and spatial transformation within a historical and political context. tan offers a theoretical framework on general aesthetic and political issues based on siti's art, while çiçek focuses on analyzing the artist's works based on form and technique. the duo's approach is based on siti's art being not only an individual narrative, but also a collective form of memory and resistance intertwined with contemporary art and political history."