Making Love Fictions

Representatives of the West seem to be free in their fantasies and benevolence regarding the feeble-minded Third World. According to this view, there is no life, history or culture worth mentioning in remote parts of the world, no independence or complete existence worth considering without the West.

Edward W Said

The first edition of Writer-Artist Şener Özmen was published in 2007, and the second edition was published recently, compiled from his articles on Contemporary Art Practices of the '95 Generation, compiled by sociologist-curator Prof. It follows the book Travma and Reform, published by Lîs Publications with Ali Akay's foreword, and Lovemaking Fictions, which the author wrote for various newspapers, magazines and catalogs between 2005 and 2008. In Making Love Fictions, Özmen asks questions again, and Özmen receives questions again; Free Kick exhibition (Istanbul, 2005) curated by Halil Altındere, his article on Cengiz Tekin, written on artist Cengiz Tekin's solo "So-called Portrait of the Artist" (2008) performed at Diyarbakır Art Center, edited by Süreyyya Evren&Halil Altındere USER'S MANUAL Contemporary Art In Turkey 2986−2006 − User Manual: Cefakâr Doğu or “Welcome To Diyarbakir”, which he wrote for Contemporary Art in Turkey (2007), is impressive, as are the interviews with him as a writer and artist in the context of art, life and Diyarbakır. . Making Love Fictions is also Özmen's latest reading on contemporary art practices.