DERYA YILMAZ, has been carving objects such as pillows, kerchiefs, quilts, oil cans, lanterns, soon to be displayed and found only in ethnography museums, since 1998. These objects coming along with the immigration from the rural to the urban space are also symbols of a cultural belonging. Hidden in chests as a sign of adaptation to urban life, or sold to street sellers for dirt cheap, these objects have become popular authentic objects and put into the market by antique dealers for a while. Coming from an immigrant family Yılmaz, creates a personal solution to the destruction of spiritual values that makes us together with the ones required by the urban life and the ones we brought along on the way. By carving life size colourful sculptures, the artist freezes these simple and ordinary objects, which are to evaporate out of the urban life sooner or later.