In an age saturated with fleeting images and closed endings, Suspended Narratives reclaims the power of storytelling as an evolving, regenerative act. This project resists linear finality. It explores storytelling not as a contained arc but as a living structure—an organism whose meaning is never fully resolved. Each work within the project is a seed: a photograph, a gesture, a fragment of memory that expands its narrative through other forms—short story, photography, digital art, painting, video, podcast, art critics and silence. The story breathes, folds, and unfolds again in layered time.
The expansion of the narrative is not outsourced; it remains in the hands of the artist. The same voice that gave birth to the initial vision continues its evolution, ensuring fidelity to the emotional core. There is no crew, no external hand shaping the next form. The use of AI and technology becomes a tool of solitary authorship—extending rather than diluting the original impulse. In this way, the narrative self-reproduces without fracture, creating a habitat not just for the art but for the artist—a continuous space of reflection, re-entry, and re-creation.
At its core, Suspended Narratives proposes a new artistic habitat: one where art is not consumed but inhabited. A photograph is not the endpoint, but an opening. The narrative moves beyond walls and formats, allowing room for stories untold, for side paths reentered, for silence to speak. This is not a call for completion but for continuation. An invitation to dwell in the in-between. A pledge to stay with the unfinished.
Not Yet is the first product of this regenerative movement.
Not Yet is based on a short story by Ömer İzgeç, originally published in 2022 by İthaki Publications (Turkey) as part of the author’s short story collection. The story centers on the Srebrenica massacre. A side narrative from the original text is reimagined by the author through narrative photography—another form of storytelling. The photograph, and the story it carries, now take on a new life in video form—its current, regenerative expression.
Not Yet by Ömer İzgeç, Narrative Photography, 2025 (Exhibited in “Suspended Narratives – Solo Exhibitions” – June 6-13, Awita New York Studios, Brooklyn, NY
Not Yet – AI asssited video by Ömer İzgeç
Echoes Podcast, discussing Not Yet
Not Yet – A Short Story by Ömer İzgeç
Ragib left the house for the first time that night. His son Adem followed his sleepwalking father. Repeating “Not yet, not yet,” Ragib, eyes closed, headed toward the old well on the hill, but collapsed at the sound of Adem’s voice: Father.
Adem carried his sleeping father back home.
When Ragib woke up in the morning, Adem was sitting by his bedside. He looked at his mud-covered foot. Next to it was a violet; he reached out and took it. He had never spoken to Adem about the war, the well, his mother, the violets, his brother Nermin, or that night in July. As he looked at the flower, shadows crossed his face. He called out to a distant well, “Not yet,” he said, “not yet, Nermin. They are still there, stay there…”
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