PİLEVNELİ presents Bora Akıncıtürk’s new solo project The Interior in the Present Future section of Artissima 2025, curated by Joel Valabrega and Léon Kruijswijk. Taking place from 31 October to 2 November at Lingotto Fiere in Turin, this year’s edition unfolds under the theme “Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth,” inspired by Richard Buckminster Fuller’s 1969 book. The curatorial framework invites reflections on the planet’s future and proposes art as a field for rethinking modes of living and production in a time of ecological and social uncertainty.
As one of the fair’s most conceptually driven sections, Present Future spotlights emerging artists whose practices challenge existing aesthetic and cultural structures. This year’s curators bring together works that engage with transformation—questioning the language, materiality, and politics of contemporary life.
Within this context, Akıncıtürk’s The Interior brings together new paintings and installations informed by music, fashion, television, and internet culture. Marking his first solo presentation at an art fair, the project continues his exploration of dystopia, overconsumption, and artistic autonomy. Blending pop imagery, online fragments, and personal memorabilia, Akıncıtürk traces the emotional and visual residue of the early 2000s’ capitalist optimism and its aftermath of ecological and industrial collapse.
At the core of the presentation lies an installation that combines two new sound works with a sculptural intervention composed of obsolete CDs and portable music players. The work acts as a form of “ghost media,” a melancholic relic of a time when personalization and technology promised individual freedom. Another series features perforated ironing boards rendered unusable—an image of today’s precarious workforce caught between instability and exhaustion. By turning a domestic symbol of productivity into a dysfunctional object, Akıncıtürk exposes the void within a system that can no longer sustain its own promises.
With The Interior, Akıncıtürk offers a critical lens on the fading globalist dream. His project maps a trajectory from the optimism of the early 21st century to the hyper-capitalist insecurity of the present—transforming the art fair booth into an introspective, fractured interior where the ruins of belief still resonate.
