SEVIL DOLMACI DUBAI PRESENTS FROM FRAGMENTS TO COHERENCE CURATED BY İPEK ULUSOY AKGÜL
Sevil Dolmacı Dubai is delighted to present From Fragments to Coherence, a compelling group exhibition curated by İpek Ulusoy Akgül. Featuring works by Cristiana de Marchi, Deniz Özuygur, Ebru Döşekçi, Hala Schoukair, Hangama Amiri, Hiba Kalache, Kıymet Daştan, Nevin Aladağ, Onur Hastürk, Sabine Boehl, Sara Al Haddad, Sage Lewis, and Sinem Sezgin Bozkurt, the exhibition will be on view from April 8 to May 10.
From Fragments to Coherence examines the part-whole relationship in artistic practices, exploring how exhibiting artists intricately engage with fragments—whether material, conceptual, or geographical—to forge new understandings of coherence, integration, and transformation. Spanning various media, from sculpture and textiles to painting and installation, the exhibition highlights the interplay between materiality, memory, and meaning-making. The participating artists address themes of destruction and reconstruction as a process of both personal and collective synthesis.
Among the highlights of the exhibition, Ebru Döşekçi presents interactive kinetic sculptures, named Possible, which invite audience participation to reconstruct and reimagine discarded materials from previous works. Nevin Aladağ’s Leaning Wall, composed of colorful porcelain, echoes a fragmented body, offering a powerful aesthetic statement on and self-perception.
Cristiana de Marchi’s Arabesques, a series of illuminated lightboxes transforms national borders into decorative motifs, drawing attention to the dynamics around forms of beautification and national identity representations. Sabine Boehl’s intricate bead-embroidered canvases merge architectural and art historical references, painting a hybrid landscape of memory and possibility. Drawing from the strength of particles, Hala Schoukair creates a universe of fragments, an orchestra of infinity.
Hangama Amiri’s evocative textile works bring together fabric pieces to narrate personal and collective migration stories. Sinem Sezgin Bozkurt, with her Rainbow Maker quilt artworks, presents a poignant reflection on mourning, displacement, loss, peace, and healing. Both artists seek to tell women’s stories while offering a sense of restoration.
Deniz Özuygur’s Ana-Dolu and Mommy series offer an artistic critique of gender roles, identity, and domestic labor. Sara al Haddad’s large-scale knitted installation, can’t you see how I feel, immerses viewers in the artist’s emotional journey of vulnerability and healing. Hiba Kalache’s mixed-media paintings, created in response to the 2020 Beirut explosion, blur the boundaries between sound, memory, and materiality through a poetic abstraction of trauma.
Kıymet Daştan’s The Oblivion Stone Series 2, inspired by a stone she deeply connected with at the Beirut National Museum, transforms optical discs into sculptures, playfully engaging with themes of memory and value. Sage Lewis’s experimental digital video Viking Lander reimagines the first images captured of Mars in the 1970s through a multi-layered visual interpretation. Finally, Onur Hastürk’s Wordless Poems series, inspired by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent’s Muhibbi poetry book, abstracts and transforms the sections containing poems into Yves Klein blue, opening windows for viewers to inscribe their own existential poetry.
Through diverse artistic practices, From Fragments to Coherence weaves a deep narrative on transformation, resilience, and meaning-making in a constantly changing world. The exhibition works with both physical and metaphorical fragments to propose new pathways toward wholeness, demonstrating how acts of reassembly can foster deeper connections and broader perceptions.
Sevil Dolmaci Dubai Design District Building: 11 R04, Dubai, UAE
ABOUT SEVIL DOLMACI DUBAI
Based on the need for access to the international market for the growing diverse and vibrant population of Dubai and the UAE, Sevil Dolmacı Dubai opened its doors on November 6, 2023. Located in the heart of the Dubai Design District where art, design, and fashion meet, Sevil Dolmacı Dubai is a contemporary space that embodies the white cube concept with its single space, high ceilings, and large white walls. The gallery aims to bring easy access to the international market, creating and feeding a bustling and sophisticated art scene with the dedication to the exchange of knowledge, culture and art. Representing and working with established international artists, many of whom have made an impact on world art history, Sevil Dolmaci Dubai wants to bridge the gap between the western art world and the Middle East.
ABOUT THE CURATOR
İpek Ulusoy Akgül is an Istanbul-based arts professional with extensive international experience in exhibition-making, editing, writing and cultural management. Her curatorial path took her from Istanbul to New York, Hong Kong, Marrakech, Doha and Dubai where she lived between 2013-16. İpek’s core interests lie in contemporary artistic and curatorial practices as well as performance/dance, therapeutic methodologies, ecology and cultural heritage. İpek has an M.A. in Museum Studies from New York University and a B.A. in Cultural Studies from Sabancı University. With Sena Çakır İmer, İpek Ulusoy Akgül also founded Consciously Curated, an Istanbul-rooted curatorial advisory that is committed to fostering meaningful connections through artistic experiences in Turkey and beyond.
