A City Among Ephemera: The Everyday History of Eskişehir
October 2026 – September 2027
ESKİŞEHİR
Affiliate:
Yaşar Yastıkçı
A City Among Ephemera: The Everyday History of Eskişehir is an integrated cultural and artistic project that aims to bring more than 400 ephemera items accumulated over several decades in Eskişehir into the public domain through an artistically designed book, a physical exhibition and an accessible digital archive. The collection includes cinema tickets, concert invitations, shop labels, school programmes, leaflets, bus tickets, packaging papers and other everyday printed materials.
At the heart of the project are these delicate and fragile pieces of paper, each bearing traces of ordinary people's everyday lives. Unlike posters or works of art intended for permanence, ephemera are objects that make no claim to lasting significance. Yet it is precisely this fleeting nature that makes them valuable records of a city's everyday life and social fabric. More than 400 original ephemera items, collected over several decades by collector Yaşar Yastıkçı, form the core of the project.
The Book: Designed as an art book, the publication will feature visual and written accounts of each ephemera item, combining editorial design with a layered narrative. Short texts on ephemera, historical context notes and creative interpretations will bring the collection to life, revealing the stories embedded in these seemingly ordinary objects.
By bringing together cultural heritage, accessibility, social memory and democratic cultural production, the project seeks to make the everyday history of Eskişehir more visible and accessible to a wider public.
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