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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 …