Missed not lost
13.11.2026–10.01.2027
curated by Deniz Kırkalı
opening on November 13, 6–9 pm
Ayşe İdil İdil's solo exhibition Missed not lost, curated by Deniz Kırkalı, addresses the conditions that shape fellowshipping across distance, staged against a rising tide of fascism and multiple global crises.
The exhibition takes place during 10 documents' thematic term logics of movement. It comprises an installation and visitations carried out by invited practitioners at various moments throughout the exhibition.
At the centre is a reworking of the artist's curtain-interface structure, functioning as backdrop, container, and divider, holding photographs, writings, and found material. They draw on the textured, still-active infrastructure of aqueducts as ancient mediators of flow and movement that carried water from source to community across distances, as a living circulatory system linking İstanbul, Rome, and beyond.
Sound and video accompany the work in disseminating waves and vibrations as forms of touch that bind us all. The new body of work is a vessel-structure, a repertoire which actively pursues the possibility of transformation or becoming something else each time visited, touched, and called upon.
The exhibition is supported by SAHA.
Ayşe İdil İdil is an artist and researcher based in İstanbul. In her practice, she researches alternative forms of togetherness and the conditions that shape bonds across time and place. She works in constellations and asks how fellowshipping can create culture outside of capitalizing and individuating systems, and what belonging looks like during multiple global crises, especially across the Mediterranean. She is a co-founder of Garp Sessions; broadcasts and organizes with independent internet radio Radyo Modyan; and is a co-founder of Sounds Here or There. She has exhibited internationally, including at poşe, İstanbul, and Sharjah Biennial 16. Her writing has been published online and in print. She received her BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and MFA at the Dutch Art Institute, Art/Praxis.
Deniz Kırkalı is an independent curator and writer based in London. She is the co-founder of topsoil, a transnational curatorial and research collective, and Garp Sessions, a summer residency programme in Babakale, Turkey. Her research-led curatorial practice focuses on collaboration and experimental pedagogies and spans the UK, Europe, and the Middle East. She holds a PhD in curatorial practices from Goldsmiths, University of London. Her writings have been published widely in international magazines and platforms such as AQNB, Flash Art, this is tomorrow, Cogito, and Art Unlimited.
