METHOD
Secant Space works with ideas before they become visible. Our approach is shaped by careful reading, conversation, and attention to context. Rather than producing ready-made narratives, we spend time clarifying the conditions and implications of a project: its assumptions, its internal logic, and the context in which it will circulate.
This work does not aim to reduce complexity, but to hold it while making it intelligible across cultural, historical, and institutional contexts.
From time to time, this way of working extends beyond our own program, through critical exchanges with external projects, when a shared intellectual ground exists.
CONTEXT
Secant Space is a curatorial platform and art residency for people active in the art, cultural, and research fields. It is open to both established and emerging artists, curators, and researchers, with a particular interest in research-based or long-term projects.
Secant Space is committed to creating the intellectual, material, and temporal conditions necessary for artistic research and production to unfold. It offers a working environment shaped by attention, care, and time, conducive to reflection, exchange, and engagement with the city of Istanbul.
Secant Space is a shared space. More broadly, it seeks to build a network of meaningful human connections. The notion of the “local” is treated as relational, shaped through encounters, exchanges, and collaborations across contexts.
Partner in Creative Research and Collective Practice
SAYE Kolektif
SAYE is an independent platform dedicated to fostering artistic exploration, critical research, and co-creation. Conceived as a playground for adults, SAYE nurtures experimentation, self-expression, and meaningful dialogue across disciplines.
Operating around annually curated themes, SAYE places strong emphasis on the creative process itself inviting participants to engage deeply with their own practice and with others.
Beyond artistic production, SAYE is committed to exploring how communities are formed, how they move together, and how they maintain individual agency within collective structures. Equality, inclusiveness, fairness, and transparency are at the heart of SAYE’s ethos, forming the foundation of its trusted and trusting creative environment.
As a collaborator, SAYE brings an acute sensitivity to process-based work, and a strong commitment to ethical and sustainable modes of cultural exchange.
