Pınar Kayar is a multi-disciplinary artist — or, as she increasingly describes herself, a lifist. Moving between drawing, ceramics, installation, text, performance, and everyday actions, she focuses on thinking through making, repetitive acts, rituals, and particles. The idea of “lifism” emerged after a period in which the separation between art and life began to collapse. After considering leaving art altogether, Kayar found herself in culinary environment, performing daily routines in the kitchen while continuing to draw and observe outside of it. Lifism became a way of understanding existence through continuous acts of making, observing, collecting, cooking, carrying, repairing, reusing, and transforming. Through this approach, her work continuously returns to the question of what it means to be human, searching for possibilities of hope and healing within the fragments of the everyday.