FATMA BUCAK: WHILE THE DUST QUICKLY FALLS | Kunsthaus Dresden - Germany: Solo presentation developed in collaboration with the Kunsthaus Dresden

Black Ink

Typographic print made with ink created from burned book ashes

Created with movable type, Black Ink documents the recipe for the ink used to print its letters. The recipe states the tragic events of its origin—ashes from a burned Kurdish book and razed house were added to a solution to create the ink. The Kurdish language has been long-persecuted in Turkey. Black Ink bears witness to the burning of a Kurdish publishing house in Diyarbakır, a city in southeast Turkey. Alas, fires have been deliber- ately incited throughout history to destroy cul- tural heritage and memory, as is the case for the fire at the center of Black Ink.

Photo by Anja Schneider