“pLASTOPia: Post-Anthropocene”

The Plastopia series emerged as a continuation of my earlier work from 2012 titled “The whole world is being passed through the straw of the culture industry.”I began Plastopia again in 2022, but the project was interrupted by a series of difficult and deeply traumatic experiences — relocating to a new country, and later being caught in an earthquake while visiting Diyarbakır.

As time passed and I slowly regained the strength to return, I found unexpected comfort in the slow, repetitive act of working with the straws — shaping them one by one, piece by piece.This act became more than just artistic labor; it became a ritual of recovery. So I continued the series.

What you see here is one piece from the Plastopia series. Below is a brief fragment from the project’s core text — the rest is on its way...

Fragments from the Plastopia Project

The products of the culture industry are fast, temporary, and disposable during their production and consumption phases.But when discarded into nature, they become slow, persistent, and nearly indestructible.

Yet evolution, by its very nature, is chaos…

Recent scientific studies show that microplastics have infiltrated not just oceans and soil — but the fish we eat, the air we breathe, our stomachs, lungs, breast milk, placentas, and even our blood.

Plastopia is an art project that speaks through irony, inspired by these scientific and statistical realities. It imagines life after ecological collapse — a world where all resources are exhausted, and yet something new begins to grow.

The beings imagined in Plastopia are not defeated by plastic — they evolve through it.They are shaped by exposure, and adapt by transforming plastic’s longevity and flexibility into tools for survival.

They are, quite literally, children of the Anthropocene.