Under the name of Ortalık56, Yaşar Erdoğan creates works that reinterpret elements of traditional Turkish culture through a contemporary visual language. By blending forgotten symbols, folk expressions, and everyday objects with modern aesthetics, he constructs a unique visual memory.

Erdoğan’s practice merges nostalgia with irony, raising layered questions about cultural identity, belonging, and transformation. Ortalık56 functions both as an act of archiving and as a way of recontextualizing that archive within today’s aesthetic and political landscape.