Exhibited at the Historic Sirkeci Train Station as part of the 3rd Yeditepe Biennial, Enes Hakan Tokyay’s installation "Only Names Are Changing / Renamed" brings the physical and psychological toll of devastation in Palestine to Istanbul. This photo selection serves as a visual record of an exhibition that reconstructs the anatomy of a bombed home.
The collapsed ceilings and shattered walls are not merely art objects; they reflect the continuous reality of those living through war. The names etched into the rubble belong to Palestinian children who lost their lives beneath such wreckage. Far more than an artistic statement, the installation offers a memory chamber that summons back, name by name, lives reduced to mere statistics. Through this selection, I document that harrowing reality preserved within a reconstructed ruin.
