Mystic Transport' is an exhibition project initiated through a chance encounter between two artists, Koen Theys and Gulsun Karamustafa. Exhibition: La Centrale, Brussels, Belgium (11.2015-02.2016).

Well known for his provocative realist paintings, Taner Ceylan (born 1967) began his Lost Paintings Series as a contemporary exploration of the Orientalist gaze. Upsetting both Western and Eastern master narratives, the Lost Paintings Series presents Eastern figures in a fascinating navigation of history, power and narrative. "Esma Sultan," Ceylan's depiction of an eighteenth-century Ottoman princess renowned for her cruel disposition, draws on the empowering mythology of passionate, ruthless and assertive womanhood that characterizes accounts of her life. In other works, an Ottoman man gazes defiantly, cigarette in hand; a pair of male lovers give a chaste farewell; a veiled woman stands before Courbet's "L'Origine du monde." Ceylan assembles a cast of lost characters and voices that embody the many silenced by both Orientalist and official nationalist histories. The book is published on the occasion of Ceylan's exhibition The Lost Paintings Series at the Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York.

Turkish installation artist and film director Gülsün Karamustafa (born 1946) explores orientalism, the effects of global migration, the role of women and the influence of the Orthodox church in Turkish culture. This volume, published in the new Solo Forseries, presents an overview of her work to date.

Het verhaal van de reizigers naar de zon. - Sprookjesachtig verhaal over twee soorten mensen: eerlijke en oneerlijke.