Ali Kazma - Sentimental / A House of Ink

The book presents Kazma's latest works, dedicated to his compatriot, Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk. It extends the structure of these videos. A House of Ink (2022) offers a succession of details of the writer's flat, his manuscripts, his library, etc., as if this interior revealed, however allusively, Pamuk's inner world. As if it were not simply the place of creation, but also the means. Sentimental (2022) is composed of a brief exchange between the writer and the video artist after days of silent shots. It shows Pamuk signing piles of books while also questioning two sorts of artists: the "naive" type who travels the world in search of inspiration, and the "sentimental" artist who, like Pamuk, requires the peace and permanence of what might be called "a room of his own" to create.