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In The Things Behind Our Darkness, Şendil displays visual and emotional contrasts that reach back to the inner voices of individuals. This approach, in which “darkness” marks the starting point of the exhibition as a metaphor, shows the artist’s research to find the images behind the visible through different mediums. While the oil paintings on 2x2 cm squares show moments from Şendil’s personal world pixel by pixel; her lace works, which exist in a similar grid system, bring the lyrics with social reflections taken from alternative music productions in the Underscene Project series since 2007 …