10.05.2025 - 07.06.2025

In collaboration with Labirent Sanat and Beykoz University Faculty of Art and Design, the exhibition “Natural Paradoxes”, curated by Selman Akıl, will be on view from May 10 to June 7, 2025.

“Natural Paradoxes” explores the complex and often contradictory relationship between humans and nature. In a time marked by unprecedented environmental transformations, the exhibition seeks to reveal the paradoxes embedded in our interactions with the natural world, emphasizing that humanity is both a part of and apart from the ecosystems it inhabits. It focuses on a world where people are simultaneously protectors and exploiters, healers and destroyers. We benefit from nature’s abundance, yet frequently exhaust its resources; we seek peace in the wilderness, while threatening its very existence.

Questioning where nature ends and culture begins, the exhibition examines the transformation of life into an artificial construct through human activity. It delves into the natural and artificial subconscious of the world, the organic and mechanical modes of thought that shape our environments, and the formal structures they give rise to.

Through diverse media such as installation, photography, sculpture, and digital art, “Natural Paradoxes” explores themes of flow and stillness, rupture and construction, preservation and consumption, forgetting and remembering. Each work—created by artists from various regions of Turkey and around the world—invites viewers to reconsider and reflect on the human relationship with the world through a deeply personal journey.