Curator: Selin Güneş

Art comes into being through being seen, felt, and shared. Yet sometimes works are never hung or reach an audience—they wait in studios, gathering dust, becoming invisible both physically and spiritually.

Pınar Yatarkalkmaz, with Platonic Art explores this invisibility, bringing together works that never found their owner or viewer but emerged from deep within the artist. The exhibition reveals the fragility of the artist's relationship with creation and the slow unraveling of belief over time.

The pieces are composed of works accumulated over years—unsold, unexhibited, left waiting. Ceramic panels, illustrations, and installations made with discarded materials reflect the artist's confrontation with their own process. In The Waiting Room, self-portraits and figures gazing from windows establish tension around seeing and being seen. Ceramic-patterned plastic bags float in the gallery while crumpled ceramics and waste materials question the notion of "trash."

Platonic Art is a mirror the artist holds up to time and themselves—the inner voice of someone struggling to realize their potential despite harsh conditions. Beyond one person's story, it reflects the invisibility experienced by many independent artists in today's Turkey, giving space to the forgotten and offering a view toward the unseen.

Visiting Hours: Every day of the week. / 2:00 PM — 7:00 PM