‘making paste from rain/you may ask - how?/to dream long enough/for fermentation’
These lines, part of a poem by multidisciplinary artist Sine İçli, are positioned in the lower-left corner of the opening wall – an ode to clay and its transformative process. This poem introduces İçli’s first solo exhibition at OG Gallery, Jittering Maps. In the top right corner, framed in earthy brown, lies a round white clay impression: the inverted faceprint of the artist’s own face. A dot, a world, a beginning and an end all at once – a mark of the self. It signals to the audience: here, she has journeyed inward, bringing back fragments from her underworld. Subtle, creative, and deeply personal, these are the artifacts of her journey.
Issue 67, December 2024
Beauty in the Wilderness
