Artist Aslı Çelikel was a guest in twenty-one houses during the two-month quarantine period and managed to realize the "Unexpected" project. The photos - videos she took, along with the interviews, revealed a collective feeling shared by all participants. Çelikel said, “This project allowed me to get through the quarantine much more easily. It was a pleasant experience listening to people's stories, learning, making comparisons, and learning a lot from people's psychology.” 

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This docu-fiction project took about 4 months. You can reach the details of the project, which consists of twenty-one houses, and describing the pandemic/quarantine period on www.unexpected-beklenmedik.com .

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We recommend listening to the podcasts on the website.

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Many thanks to the entire team and to all participants. It was a challenging journey, but we prevailed.The final piece of this project was a movie. The images in this movie, which we created based on the quarantine diaries we received from the participants, actually reflects our collective feeling during this pandemic .

Enjoy the movie

And also,  it was #shotoniphone!

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Imagine waking up in another world one day, worrying while trying to understand the mess you are in and being stuck in a house.

While trying to evaluate the situation, you start to sort it out, to notice your own shortcomings, to try and challenge them, and to give in to the desire to learn that comes with it...

Maybe you want to spoil yourself a little, maybe you take a break.Is there enough time?

You know you must eat healthy, exercise, sleep well.

You have to produce, to create, against all challenges.

Then, suddenly, you stop!

The desire not to wake up, not being able to see tomorrow, not being able to make eye contact kicks in.

To become alienated!

To be obligated to face it!

Then, inevitable, to get used to it.

These "unexpected habits" we…

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