A Life Shaped by Found Objects Born in the central Turkish town of Bor, Cengiz Çekil carried with him a practical creativity inherited from his father, who could transform used materials into toys. This early manual dexterity laid the foundation for an artistic practice that would later reject traditional canvases in favor of the discarded and the everyday. After studying at the Gazi Institute of Education in Ankara, he traveled to Paris on a state scholarship, arriving at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts during a period of profound transformation in the art world. It was in the…