Mar 10, 2026 - Apr 11, 2026

Untold Tales

Yonca Saraçoğlu

Yonca Saraçoğlu, an artist who occupies a transgenerational position within the contemporary art scene, repositions her style conceptually and formally at a more advanced aesthetic threshold in her new exhibition, Untold Tales. Having worked with a broad colour palette in previous periods, the artist develops in this series a memory-oriented narrative through hazy images achieved with fewer colours.

Saraçoğlu expresses the emotions she experienced during the process through which the exhibition took shape in the following words:

“At this stage of my personal journey, influenced by having come alive and attained consciousness in a crooked, layered, and deeply buried ancient city, I find myself returning to the spaces I deeply cherish—uncanny, hypothetical, imagined, escaped-to, lived-in, mysterious, utopian, wild, spiritual, uncontrollable spaces—surreal to some, real to me. At the same time, I began to pursue what is lost in translation, what cannot be articulated, and what remains wordless and silent. I traced meanings that have lost their place and subject; the unconfessed, what has no equivalent in language, silent catastrophes, the voided, losses, what is deemed unworthy of being told, and what appears like a fairy tale to the other. As a ‘solitary wanderer,’ I wandered through labyrinths, losing myself in a misty, fog-laden, uncertain, and dreamlike atmosphere shaped by a blue-green harmony accompanied by yellow and purple, posing unintentional questions to the shadows I encountered. I found what I was not seeking, and I am still searching for what I could not find…”