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I work on memory, the memory and the disjunction between “what I remember and what I don't remember. Also, how it must have been because that can’t be how I remember it.” My family history is essential in this sense because it’s something that I understand, and it’s something that I can enter in any way I want and I feel very intimate with that history. I also have this sense (maybe it’s the story I told myself) that I’m reliving my parent's and my grandparents' lives together to bring something that could make sense to my own displacement from an early age. I think I began to think about memory, to make a sense on all of it.
waseem ahmad siddiqui/ صدیقی / 1992 / LAHORE / ISTANBUL


solo exhibition
…Now! (Can I stay at your place?)
Depo Istanbul, 2025, May 6 - 2025, July 1
Solukdaş (We all breath the same air)
Bürosarıgedik, 2025, February 18 – 2025, March 21
Deniz Pasha, Dilek Winchester, Güneş Savaş, Waseem Ahmad Siddiqui (with the dipnot of Michael Haneke)
Italo Calvino 100 + 1 Yaşında!
Collective Exhibition with 11 Artists and Architects
Kıraathane Istanbul, 2024, February 23 - 2024, March 22, C
civil organization
Açık Radyo (Open Radio): Radio Anchor: Hüsnükabul (refugees' rights-based voices)
book & book chapter
Time Comes to a Stand “Where” it Ceases to Be.
Gülsün Karamustafa, Hollow and Broken: State of the World, Venice Biennale, by İKSV in collaboration with Mousse Publishing in its English edition. ISBN: 978-88-6749-626-6
Orientalism (Post-Colonial Modernity in South Asia), published by Aura Istanbul (Architecture Urbanism Research Association).
residency
AURA Istanbul: Orientalism: Hybridization with Colonial and Postcolonial Modernity
“Whose house is this?” XXI Magazine. 09.12.2022.
"Yarin Istanbul’a Uzun Bir Yol" (Tomorrow is a long way to Istanbul) manifold.press, 06.09.2022.
Koş! Geliyorlar!” (Run! They are coming!) manifold.press, 05.11.2022.
Sign towards the void. XXI Magazine. 17.04.2023.
On survival methodologies. XXI Magazine. 15.12.2023.
“Biz…Yolcuyuz” (We …Travelers) manifold.press, 07.02.2023.
“Her adada insanlar denizi seyreder” (On every island people watch the sea) manifold.press, 06.04.2023.
“Vadiye inen yolcular” (Travelers descending into the valley) manifold.press, 06.06.2023.
“Bize bakan an” (The moment we're facing) manifold.press, 06.08.2023.
“Vakit geç oldu” (It's late) manifold.press, 07.10.2023.
“Sokak, Saat Yedi” (Street, Seven o'clock) manifold.press, 06.12.2023.
“Kendime yalan söylüyorum” (I'm lying to myself) manifold.press, 06.02.2024.
“Harita cevap değil” (Map isn’t an answer) manifold.press, 06.04.2024.
“O hala burada değil” (She isn’t here) manifold.press, 07.06.2024.
“Peki size en son dediler” (what did they tell you last time) manifold.press, 06.08.2024.
“İhanet ettiğinde acı çekersin” (you suffer when you betray) manifold.press, 07.10.2024.
“Gözlerini kapat, hayal etl, şimdi bize duyabilirsin” (Close your eyes, imagine, now you can hear us) manifold.press, 23.10.2024.
“Hafızayı Öldürelim!” (Kill Memory!) manifold.press, 07.12.2024.
“Burada Yatıyorlar” (Here They Lie) manifold.press, 05.02.2025.
“Özür dilerim” (I am sorry) manifold.press, 10.03.2025.
“Kimseye veda etmedim” (I said goodbye to no one) manifold.press, 09.04.2025.
“Artık yaşlanıyorsun, sen ve kasım” (You're getting old now, you and November) manifold.press, 07.05.2025.
“Tüm bunların ötesinde, sen kimsin?” (After all, who are you?) manifold.press, 09.06.2025.
collaborative work
Is my hope disappointed?: A Conversation with Artists Waseem Ahmad Siddiqui and Marina Papazyan
Depo Istanbul, July 2, 2025.
Now Time! A Conversation with Waseem Ahmad Siddiqui
Depo Istanbul, June 12, 2025.
Evinizde Kalabilir miyim? (Can I stay at your place?)
Waseem Ahmad Siddiqui, Melis Cankara, Nihal Boztekin, Hasan Cem Çal
A Conversation at Kıraathane Istanbul.
Mayıs 2025, 24
Ayrımcılıkla Mücadelede Umudu Aramak Waseem Ahmad Siddiqui ile Söyleşi – Didem Danış (Searching for Hope in the Fight against Discrimination Interview with Waseem Ahmad Siddiqui - Didem Danış)
Göç Araştırma Derneği (Migration Research Association)
December 16, 2024.
BüroSarigedik. Deniz Pasha, Waseem Ahmad Siddiqui ve Zehra Begüm Kışla [Video]. YouTube. May 13, 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMAGotHKSLw
"Şu an Hristos Tepesindeyim!" (Now you are at Christos Hill) manifold.press, 07.07.2025.
Tek istediğimiz şey bu: sevgi, sevgi ve sevgi” (This is what we all want: love, love and love) manifold.press, 09.08.2025.
Burada evde olmak bir şey ifade ediyor mu? (I feel at home here, does it make sense to you?), BIANET, 16.03.2024
Hatırlamak zor bir çaba olmalı. (Remembering must be harder now), BIANET, 22.06.2024
network
Açık Radyo (Open Radio) Transcripts & recordings: AçıkRadyo
Manifold essays in Turkish: Manifold
XXI Architecture Magazine: XXI
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