above: scheme / connections between the photographs and the neighbourhoods

The translation drawings are a documentation of my city walks in Istanbul. Between 2015 and 2021, I walked over 500 kilometers in Istanbul and her periphery to document the transformation of the city and the rewriting of street names. 

right: installation view, Hospitalhof Stuttgart, 2022
Archive-Drawings and Translation drawings of two Walks in Fatih and Beyoğlu 
The length of the drawings varies depending on the length of the walks. 

Fatih 37, 2022, ca. 400 × 42 cm, pencil and crayon, fineliner on paper
Beyoglu 34, 2021, ca. 106 × 42 cm, pencil and crayon, fineliner on paper

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after: Beyoglu 34, 2021, ca. 106 × 42 cm, pencil and crayon, fineliner on paper
© Gunter Lepkowski, Berlin
 

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after: pre-research for the translation-drawings
each: crayon, fineliner and pencil on paper
29,7 x 21 cm, since 2015, ongoing

© Frank Kleinbach, Stuttgart