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In the Belly of the Whale
Barın Han, 2025 The exhibition “In the Belly of the Whale”, brings together the poetry of Hatice Utkan and the art of Eda Soylu. In this exhibition, Soylu and Utkan weave together the knowledge of painting, sculpture, and poetry, aiming to discover a new approach to art by intertwining these disciplines. The exhibition... Read more -
Color Blocks For Adults
Ferda Art Platform, 2022 Adults prefer to play with guns, gas capsules and ways of killing. They play with death. This is a game for adults. There are 350 colored concrete blocks in this game. Each block is 8 kilos. Each block is 20x20x20 cm (the size of this book). They are red, yellow,... Read more -
Injured Moments
Barın Han, 2019 Injured Moments is a work that consists of mugshot photographs of gas capsules that were brutally used in 2013 during Gezi Park demonstrations. Painted in white and sanded layer upon layer, a certain level of smoothness is aimed to be achieved, although in order to reach that level of smoothness,... Read more -
Remnants From My Grandmother's House
Mixer, 2018 'Houses of grandmothers are always very organized, most resemble each other. Every ornament, every foil, being in perfect harmony, are in dialogue with one another. As if, if one goes missing, the house becomes lacking, breaking the flow. Grandmother houses are complete as such. Yet, within this wholeness, stands the... Read more -
Constructing the House Anew
Gallery Khas, Kadir Has University, 2016 Construction the House Anew is an exhibition-installation presented at Gallery Khas, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, curated by Hasan Bülent Kahraman. The exhibition is composed of building materials recovered from the demolition of various houses, alongside architectural elements dismantled from the artist’s own home and relocated into the gallery space. Through... Read more -
"Not Being Forgotten, How Strange!"
Berlin Art Projects - Istanbul, 2014 Soylu creates a world from her own experiences, from things she witnessed, places she visited and poems she reads. Following the traces of destruction that happen in various ways along with the effects and scars of oppression and suppression, these themes are addressed not only on a social level but... Read more -
Wallpaper
Balat - Istanbul, 2015 From the series “And the House Frowned”, Wallpaper is a site-specific installation composed of concrete and flowers. By embedding flowers in concrete, acts of killing, housing, and preserving unfold simultaneously. Flowers placed in concrete do not die immediately; their death is observable. Over time, they weaken, yet this form of... Read more -
Color Studies
2011 - ongoing Read more
