Istanbul's Matzo Factory is setting for 4 young Turkish-Jewish Artists

THE NEW YORKER
By Elif Batuman

"Untitled Machine" by Sibel Horada

TURKEY - A lot of people don’t know that, for nearly thirty years, Istanbul had its own working matzo factory, or that Istanbul still has its own non-working matzo factory. Known in Turkish as the “doughless oven,” located in Galata, on the northern bank of the Golden Horn, it has been given over to the arts. I recently went there to see “An Attempt at Exhausting a Place,” an exhibit by four young Turkish-Jewish artists. The exhibit, organized with help from Jasmine Taranto, included works by Reysi Kamhi, Eytan Ipeker, Neşe Nogay, and Sibel Horada. I was particularly drawn to Horada’s “Untitled Machine”: a row of old tube TV sets showing the matzo machine in grinding, clanging action. Each TV displayed a different section of the machine, producing the effect of a phantasmal assembly line. [link]