“This artist’s book comprises selected drawings by İnci Eviner and the poetic texts she wrote in
Büyükada, Istanbul, in 2023–2024, in a reflexive conversation with each drawing. Known for her work
across various mediums such as drawing, video, performance, sculpture, and installation, Eviner, with
this book, invites readers to explore her creative universe through her drawings and the accompanying
texts that she crafted as if conversing with them. Published in two separate language editions, Turkish
and English, the book is enriched by Eviner’s design concept and Ruslan Abasov’s design.
Lying at the centre of İnci Eviner’s creative practice, drawing, for the artist, serves both as a means of
expressing the unconscious and a tool for exploring her concepts. It is a space where the interplay
between the conscious and unconscious can unfold, revealing the complex entanglement between
the societal and the psychic. It also serves as the foundation upon which she discovers and develops
new ideas, forms, and spatial constructs. Rooted in this foundation and continuously evolving with a
boundless visual language, her work questions and challenges the forms of social, historical, and
discursive representations and the underlying norms behind them.
In Behind It Something Intimate, Eviner engages in a dialogue with her drawings and expands the
multi-layered world that shapes them in a textual space that she shares with the readers.”