"TIME FLOWS" EXHIBITION SHOWN AT KULTURPARK

• The joint exhibition “Time Flows” by Prof. Efe Türkel, a faculty member of the Ceramics and Glass Department at Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Fine Arts, and Fatih Şimşek, was on display at the Pakistan Pavilion, Kültürpark, from March 31 to April 19. The exhibition focused on “humanity” and its relationship with time.

The exhibition “Time Flows” is a conceptual continuation of the “Timeless Stories” project, which was first brought to life in 2023 by Prof. Efe Türkel and Fatih Şimşek. It explores how their teacher-student relationship, established twelve years ago in academia, has evolved into a shared artistic dialogue fueled by contrasts.

The exhibition, which focuses on "humanity" and its relationship with time as a fundamental concept, was produced in the art studio of Kâse Seramik, founded by Fatih Şimşek, who is also the exhibition's sponsor. The artists created these pieces through instinctive and rapid sketching practices. In this experimental process, Prof. Efe Türkel deconstructs everyday objects belonging to Kâse Seramik, such as plates, treating ceramics as an archaeological time machine carrying information from the past to the future. Artist Fatih Şimşek, on the other hand, explores the transience of moments lost in the rapidly continuing cycle of time through the textural characteristics of the busts he has shaped.

In this context, the exhibition presented the viewer with the idea that time is a continuous flow that can neither be entirely captured nor completely lost. Time sometimes flows like a rushing river, sometimes like underground waters, silently but uninterruptedly. Rather than documenting a static moment, the works open up a discussion about the reciprocal traces left by humanity on this flow and by time on humanity.

Beyond the physical permanence of the form, emphasis is placed on the importance of the connection that the artists who created it establish with each other and with time—that is, "with whom one embarks on the journey, rather than the path taken." Ultimately, the "Time Flows" exhibition invited viewers not only to examine artistic forms but also to realize how we are interconnected within the flow of life and to construct our own place within this unique flow.