2 books
Ali Akay is a writer, sociologist, academic, and curator whose work moves between social theory and contemporary art. It Was a Time of Conversation revisits exhibitions and exchanges that helped shape artistic debate in Turkey during the 1990s. The book treats conversation not as background material but as a way of tracing how artists, curators, and institutions formed a changing field. Unleashed: Contemporary Art from Turkey offers a broader route through practices emerging from the same cultural setting, placing Akay among several contributors rather than presenting a single-author survey. For curatorial history, It Was a Time of Conversation gives the focused account; Unleashed widens the view to a collective picture of contemporary art and its international framing.
