Ipek- 2024

The word İpek - meaning "silk " in modern Turkish - is derived from the Old Turkic term ipäk, which translates to borh silk or thread.
Silk, celebrated for its strength, beauty, and luxurious texture, has long held significant cultural and economic importance in Turkish history.

Inside the silky surface of the fluid cocoon that blurs the vision through ever-changing artifacts, the flow of futuristic forms.
Inspired by Boccioni and his Forme Uniche nella Continuità dello Spazio, they are memories of a shared endeavour into sustaining life through water.

Looking closely to the swirling patterns by which the atmosphere becomes fluid water, you could recognize the Pecile of Hadrian’s Villa, in Tivoli: the water pool,
surrounded by worned-out sculptures depicting ancient gods of water and nature, which mirrored Emperor Hadrian’s memories of the Nile and of his drowned lover Antinoo.

A close weaving of layered influences , Ipek is a testament to connections made of shiny silk, fragile in appearance but unyielding in matter, binding time, place, and meaning into a unified -yet ineffable- whole.