Dark Blue Homeland Fabric

Sunay Akın in Dark Blue Homeland Fabric, tells the story of why Mustafa Kemal Atatürk founded the Republic on “culture” through the stories of our unsung heroes. He reminds us that we have inherited a legacy in which art and culture are considered synonymous with independence.

Our painters who depicted the Battle of Gallipoli at the front, the cave paintings on Mount Latmos, the foam painted on the bow of the ship Gülcemal, Yaşar Kemal and Arif Dino’s wait at the Paris railway station, the Exupéry photograph that came to light in a house in Pendik, Mustafa Pilevneli’s painting exhibited in the museum next to the Kaşinozaki Lighthouse, and the first story from Ferhan Şensoy and the last from Sait Faik, which passed through Vedat Günyol’s hands…

Sunay Akın, like a toy soldier, begins his adventures inside the belly of a fish and always ends them by returning home…