In 2005’s “Istanbul,” Pamuk wrote of his preference for the “overwhelming melancholy” of wintertime when the city’s imperfections are obscured in shadow. Yet he tries, including bursts taken microseconds apart to show incremental differences in the wake of a ferry or a seagull’s flightpath.Ĭolours are muted in the thin winter light that subdues the disorder in a city of more than 15m inhabitants. Orhan Pamuk was famously put on trial for the crime of 'insulting Turkishness' after he complained in a magazine interview that his fellow Turks kept silent about the Armenian genocide.The charges. In almost every picture is water, foiling Pamuk’s obsession with making permanent the ephemeral. In one image, a bird perches atop the finial of a mosque's dome, while construction cranes loom next to boxy skyscrapers in the backdrop. The lower floor is filled with oversized prints on textured, canvas-like paper, unadorned with frames the stone minarets of a 19th century mosque outside of Pamuk’s flat provide a natural boundary within many images.įrom a lofty distance, Pamuk’s telephoto lens only occasionally turns to the forces disfiguring an 8,000-year-old skyline. The book has received positive retrospective reviews from critics.
The novel tells the story of a week in which three siblings go to visit their grandmother in Cennethisar, a small town near Istanbul. The exhibition dives straight into the book, its pages enlarged and hanging from the walls of a dimly lit upper gallery. First edition (Turkish) Silent House (1983) is Orhan Pamuk s second novel published after Cevdet Bey and His Sons. Orhan Pamuk, Balkon (2018) Courtesy of Yapı Kredi Kültür Sanat ve Yayıncılık
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