Transient Terrain(s)

Severing the ties that once anchored me to my past, my roots, my place, I encounter the unknown and yet the strangely familiar.

This voyage has transported me to foreignness, where my identity, my persona, my entirety feels unmoored, suspended in an in-between state, neither here nor there.

How does this ambiguity, this sense of placelessness, influence my perspective as I turn my gaze towards my new present, relinquishing the weight of accumulated years of my familiar past? How do I begin to place myself in this unknown?

Is it even possible to capture the rootedness of experience – mine, yours, theirs?

Amidst this disorientation, I find solace in embracing the emptiness. Leaving the relentless pursuit of meaning, finding peace in the absence of prescribed significance–my photo diary begins. They began speaking with each other–raw, profound, transient, potential conversation. Between moments that are intimately familiar and hauntingly unfamiliar, do these photographs mirror the nature of foreignness? Can the deep-seated emotions and memories be unearthed and replanted in new soil?

In the liminal space where foreignness and rootedness come across each other – clash, coalesce, co- exist. As I navigate the terrain of in-betweenness, I discover my place.

I am but a passing figure in time and space, an explorer on an expedition of connection and experimentation. In this realm, I am neither here nor there, yet everywhere.

Artist: Özgür Ilter Hurley

Opening: 2023.10.15., 18:00

The exhibition is open every day during opening hours on the first floor of the Központ