Curator: Ebru Yılmaz

Zeki Demirkubuz opens a contemplative field through still frames. Eschewing drama and visual directives, the selection pursues a bare, unmediated gaze. Moments filtered through a silence that carries thought stand free of narrative, asserting the directness of solitude. There is no “pose”, only a stance: an unstaged, unforced flow in which subject, surroundings, emptiness and light co-compose. Place–time–light comes to the fore, leaving the viewer with intuition and implication.

The introspective formal attitude of his cinema is redefined here through non-narration. Each image invites the viewer into a private domain of thought shaped by solitude—an invitation to witness and to pause. As time is briefly suspended, a contemplative gap opens between image and viewer. The exhibition proposes simplicity not as style but as an ethical discipline of looking, and offers a way of seeing subjects through the very making of the gaze.