Pg Art Gallery is pleased to present Aysun Bozuklu’s exhibition Liquid Future, on view from May 20 to June 20.
Aysun Bozuklu’s paintings explore a universe in which time has lost its linear flow and instead condenses and stratifies within space itself. The exhibition invites viewers to reflect on an alternative understanding of temporality, moving away from humanity’s familiar conception of time as measurable, divisible, and constantly progressing forward. In this framework, time ceases to function as a linear trajectory and becomes instead an accumulated, concentrated structure layered within space. Space, in turn, becomes the carrier of this temporal density.
The cities depicted in her paintings appear ancient despite belonging to the future. This is because time here does not produce a past; rather, it manifests as a density accumulated upon surfaces. As a result, structures simultaneously embody states of erosion, formation, and dissolution. Within this layered system, the industrial elements of the city also evolve beyond their conventional functions into alternative modes of existence. Pipe systems, supporting surfaces, and structural components no longer facilitate physical circulation, but instead become vessels carrying time itself. Space loses its stability, dissolving within time and transforming into a permeable, mutable organism. Nature, within this universe, is approached not as something that grows, but as something that remembers. Rather than developing through attachment to the soil, plants emerge by piercing through layers of time. Color and light behave similarly; instead of dispersing, they condense and become fixed. In this way, the cyclical nature of the natural world is also opened up to reconsideration.
Within this universe, the figure appears not as a physical presence but as a temporal trace. Echoing the artist’s sculptural practice, these figures are conceived as the timeless inhabitants of these silent cities. Rather than representing physical beings, they embody the spiritual residues left by space across different temporal layers. Never directly present, yet born from the energy, rust, and light of these environments, these figures exist as ghosts of this world. Their smooth, untouchable surfaces offer a fragile yet enduring counterpoint to the harshness of industrial remnants. They neither seek to arrive anywhere nor demand visibility; they simply exist, quietly accompanying the surrender of space to nature and to cosmic cycles.
The world presented through the exhibition is not an entirely separate realm, but rather another temporal layer of existing reality. Humanity is not directly visible within this plane, yet its presence continues to be felt through the traces and transformed structures it has left behind. These cities are neither abandoned nor destroyed; they have merely shifted into another temporal dimension.
