Lies I Tell Myself, 2015 - 2020
Variable forms and dimensions

Lies I Tell Myself was first produced in 2015 as part of Unexpected Visitor, a spam art project initiated by Gizem Karakas in collaboration with Ali Emir Tapan.

The project brought together seven artists, each contributing a single work distributed to half a million randomly generated email addresses, one every ten days. Accessible via a temporary download link, each piece was removed from the server upon the release of the next, rendering it permanently unavailable.

In 2019, for her second solo exhibition We Are Not Innocent at Depo, Karakas developed a new iteration of the work. Transitioning from a handwritten format, the text was presented as a typed and printed unlimited edition, freely distributed to visitors.

A third handwritten version was produced in 2020 and donated to an online charity sale organized for the 30th anniversary of the Mor Çatı Women’s Shelter Foundation.