The title “Summer Diaries” refers to a season. At its core, it concerns the system created by that season. This approach encompasses a visual language related to economy, architecture, infrastructure, and consumption shaped by the coastal strip.

Antonio Cosentino’s works bring to the surface the material culture of summer, such as television, tubes, plastic chairs, shop windows, signs, and boats, with an archival approach. This is a record that reveals the systems behind the bright appearance of summer. Considering the artist’s previous practice of constructing fragmentary narratives depicting Istanbul stories, photographs, and walking memories, Summer Diaries also points to a record of the coast….