Curator: Arzu Eke

Human existence is often the pursuit of what cannot be seen: the weight of the soul, the flow of life, the fragility of feeling. Invisibility can be the most intense form of presence; the truest things are rarely, if ever, fully visible. They are sensed, heard, and sometimes echo in the deepest quiet. Absence points to presence—the unseen is not lost, only resident in another reality, a cartography of the soul read by intuition. This exhibition invites you to wander within that unseen time.

Ayşe Yenel’s practice turns around existence, identity, womanhood, and ontological questions. She treats photography as an interior field of thought—a visual philosophy. Recurring motifs of nature, flowers, and the female figure entangle with ambiguity, memory, and vulnerability. Faces that recede from clarity, blurred vistas, and staged silences form her visual syntax. For Yenel, photography is not merely image-making but an enquiry—an inner hush and existential depth. Each photograph becomes a mental performance, seeking the intuitive strata behind the visible and confronting the viewer with their own presence.