Art is not complete through creation alone; it comes into being through being seen, felt, and shared. And yet, sometimes what’s produced is never hung on a wall or reaches an audience. It waits in a corner of the studio for years, tucked away in a box or left to gather dust on a shelf. At some point, these works become invisible—not only physically, but spiritually too.

Platonic Art offers a perspective on this invisibility, this state of being forgotten, suspended in limbo. It brings together works that never found their owner, never reached a viewer, but emerged from deep within the artist. The exhibition seeks to make visible the fragility of the artist’s relationship with creation, their inner reckonings, and the slow unraveling of belief over time.

To wait to be seen is, at times, like dying while still alive. For an artist, witnessing their works be forgotten—never lived, never loved—becomes a deep existential questioning. Creation turns from a relief into a burden. Works that go unclaimed begin to feel like waste—an emotional and material load, a crowd rendered invisible.

The pieces in this exhibition are composed of works that have accumulated over the years—unsold, unexhibited, or long left waiting. Ceramic panels, illustrations, prints, and installations made with discarded materials reflect the artist’s confrontation with their own process. In the installation The Waiting Room, self-portraits of the artist and figures gazing out of a window face the viewer, establishing a quiet tension around seeing and being seen. In the centre of the gallery space, ceramic-patterned plastic bags float in the air, while crumpled ceramics, paint tubes, and waste materials scattered on the ground question the notion of "trash" in both physical and metaphorical terms. Some works lean against the wall inside garbage bags—simultaneously protected and abandoned.

Platonic Art is not just an exhibition; it is a mirror the artist holds up to time and to themselves. It is the inner voice of someone who struggles to realise their potential and persists in making art despite life’s harsh conditions. And beyond one person’s story, it reflects the invisibility experienced by many independent artists striving to create in today’s Turkey.

This exhibition was created to give space to the forgotten, to offer a view toward the unseen, and—perhaps most importantly—to hear the whispers of those who still have something to say.