EKAV / Education, Culture and Research Foundation is happy to host the fifth solo show of Aşkım Akyıldız at Ekavart Gallery from April 25th – May 25th 2024, titled after her book of poems “Silent Reproach of Mine (Sitemim Lal)”, where paintings become poems, and poetry becomes painting.

The artist leaves her artwork out in the nature and exposes them to the elements. The figures in these works sometimes drift under rainfall or get carried away by a storm only to find shelter in the bosoms of cats and dogs. Paintings get caught by an old garden gate, sleep at night with hydrangeas, get stuck on the wall of a church or a bell tower; tiny figures are left behind and forgotten between lace pillows; and shiny little bugs, and ants wander on other paintings in the grooves of olive trees and on their branches…

Akyıldız, who produces her art in villages by the sea and next to forests where she spends most of her life often uses, besides paint, needle and thread, and fabric in her work. Use of fine calligraphy nibs in drawing, and the charming lightness of watercolors evoke figures and portraits floating in space, while the poetics of ink lend to elements of painting in such work.

Aşkım Akyıldız dedicates this exhibition of her new work to all whose reproach is silent;
To children whose reproach is silent,
To animals whose reproach is silent,
And to women whose cheeks blush with silent reproach…

More information can be found here.