I Need More Time

This book, which accompanies the group exhibition I Need More Time at Arter, brings together three texts that, from different perspectives, address the ways in which photography captures, freezes, and reconstructs time. “Weathered by the Gaze”, written by the exhibition’s curator Oğuz Karakütük, traces the historical and cultural transformations in the relationship between photography and reality, while art historian and writer Caroline von Courten’s essay “In the meantime” invites the reader to reconsider the medium’s contemporary conditions of existence by examining its chemical, material, and temporal processes through the concept of the “meantime”. In his contribution “I Need More Time”, which shares its title with the exhibition, poet Ömer Şişman enriches the book’s theoretical framework through a fragmented interior monologue on time, memory, and experience. Designed by Nazlı Deniz Oğuz, the book also includes concise texts on the artists and works in the exhibition, reproduction photographs by Hadiye Cangökçe, and installation views of the exhibition captured by Orhan Cem Çetin, Eflâtun Derin Çetin, and Fırat Rüzgar.

Held in Arter’s 1st-floor gallery, I Need More Time brings together works by nineteen artists from Türkiye and various geographies, making visible the plural and experimental approaches that photography has developed in response to speed, representation, and technical determinism.