Ali Kazma's intimate portrait of Orhan Pamuk's creative process

Turkish video artist Ali Kazma presents his fourth solo exhibition at Galleria Francesca Minini in Milan, featuring two multi-screen projections dedicated to Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk. The project, titled 'A House of Ink,' is a triptych that documents Pamuk's writing and painting process over 65 days of filming between December 2021 and July 2023, totaling over 200 hours of footage. Kazma filmed Pamuk in his Istanbul apartment, focusing on his handwritten manuscripts, including over 3,000 pages of 'The Black Book.' The work evolved through three phases: first filming manuscripts and views of the Bosphorus, then capturing Pamuk at work, and finally a more intimate dialogue that led to the video 'Sentimental.' In 'Sentimental,' Kazma appears on camera, discussing the distinction between 'naive' and 'sentimental' artists as described by Schiller, a concept Pamuk explored in his book 'The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist.' The exhibition runs at Galleria Francesca Minini in Milan.