I missed this earlier, at Frieze Sculpture 2026 in Regent’s Park., no doubt because the “sculpture” itself is so tediously uninteresting. Just instructions:
The details:
“Take a photo or video…. Be a part of the work. Through your body, an alternative monument is born”. No thanks.
But the artists: Özlem Günyol and Mustafa Kunt. Mustafa Kunt?? A joke name, surely. But apparently not.
Possibilities for a Sculpture reflects Özlem Günyol and Mustafa Kunt’s enduring exploration of language, identity, borders, symbols of power and authority and communication systems. Since 2005, the artist duo has collaborated on projects spanning sculpture, installation, text and spatial interventions to examine how meaning can be unstable and transformative….
Özlem Günyol (b.1977, Ankara; lives and works in Frankfurt) and Mustafa Kunt (b.1978, Ankara; lives and works in Frankfurt) have collaborated since 2005. Their practice spans sculpture, installation, text and spatial interventions, with a focus on language, identity, borders, symbols of power and authority and communication systems.
So there we are.
There is, in fact, a precedent. A letter from Archibald Clark Kerr, 1st Baron Inverchapel: written in 1943, when he was Ambassador to Moscow, to Lord Pembroke:
My Dear Reggie,
In these dark days man tends to look for little shafts of light that spill from Heaven. My days are probably darker than yours, and I need, my God I do, all the light I can get. But I am a decent fellow, and I do not want to be mean and selfish about what little brightness is shed upon me from time to time. So I propose to share with you a tiny flash that has illuminated my sombre life and tell you that God has given me a new Turkish colleague whose card tells me that he is called Mustapha Kunt.
We all feel like that, Reggie, now and then, especially when Spring is upon us, but few of us would care to put it on our cards. It takes a Turk to do that.
Sir Archibald Clerk Kerr,
H.M. Ambassador
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