Onur Kaymak (Tokat, 1995) is a Turkish artist who works both in Gent and Istanbul. He completed a master's degree at Luca School of Arts. His process often begins with a walk, allowing objects or spaces to pull himself in rather than seeking them out. He is drawn to industrial remnants -discarded materials and environments- that echo his background in a family of construction workers in Turkey. In a rapidly transforming urban landscape that erases people’s memories, such fragments become silent witnesses to forgotten histories.

Charcoal drawing is his core practice, it is central to how he engages with these spaces. Indeed, Onur Kaymak is not only seeking to represent, but also to find a way of reanimating abandoned forms—giving them presence and personality. These abandoned entities, no longer serving their original functions, have become forms in their own right, almost sculptural in their environment.

Recently, images of domestic tools have also entered into his practice. Through this intimate dialogue with the overlooked, Onur Kaymak construct visual narratives and ultimately explore how neglected things can take on renewed meaning.