Hera Büyüktaşcıyan's Phantom Quartet Opens at Arter

Hera Büyüktaşcıyan's solo exhibition 'Phantom Quartet' opens at Arter on 27 November, curated by Nilüfer Şaşmazer. The exhibition spans four chapters—Necropolis, Courtyard, Avenue, Gaze—exploring dualities like presence/absence, life/death, and erasure/reconstruction. It combines new works with earlier pieces from the Arter Collection, focusing on identity, memory, and nature through the artist's personal history in Istanbul's Kurtuluş and Tarlabaşı neighborhoods. The title references 'phantom limb,' evoking lingering presence after loss. Elements of fire, air, water, and earth permeate the works, interlacing past, present, future, and purgatory. Büyüktaşcıyan uses materials and deconstructive forms to examine surface tension and the collision of elements transformed by time, tracing individual and collective memory through textures, sounds, and urban landscapes.