“BAS started with my private archive, when we opened in 2006. But it has grown since then. Developing the archive is one of the main goals of BAS. So we buy things, we barter, we go to artist’s book fairs. And people send us things. Now it’s officially the BAS collection. These days I prefer ‘collection’ to ‘archive’—the point is that it’s on permanent display.”

—Banu Cennetoğlu