
Parçalı Gerçeklikler
Dünya, tek bir anlatıdan ya da kesintisiz bir zamandan ibaret değildir; imgelerin, hafızanın ve duyumların üst üste bindiği parçalı bir bütündür. Parçalı Gerçeklikler sergisi, farklı zaman dilimlerine ve kültürlere ait görsel fragmanları deneysel bir kolaj diliyle bir araya getiriyor.
Artist: Dr. Işık Sungurlar Baysal
Explore the exhibition
Navigate with your mouse or touchscreen. You can also expand the exhibition to full screen.
About the Exhibition
The world is not composed of a single narrative or an uninterrupted continuum of time; it is a fragmented whole in which images, memories and sensations overlap. Fragmented Realities brings together visual fragments from different periods and cultures through an experimental language of collage. The stillness of classical mythological busts, the fragility of human anatomy and the enduring structures of traditional textures intersect with vivid colours, geometric lines and pop-art symbols. The recurring image of the eye raises questions about looking, awareness and the act of seeing, positioning viewers at the boundary between object and subject. Each work brings the aesthetic legacy of the past into dialogue with the rapid, fragmented visual culture of the present. When these seemingly unrelated elements meet, they suggest new connections and forms of coherence. Fragmented Realities invites viewers not to seek a single truth, but to move among fragments and construct their own inner truth and visual narrative.
Artworks
Silent Gaze
· Digital collage
Eternal Witness
· Digital collage
Starry Fragment
· Digital collage
Deep Intuition
· Digital collage
Old Memory
· Digital collage
Fragmented Gaze
· Digital collage
Ritual of Transition
· Digital collage
Trace of a Shadow
· Digital collage
Trace of an Eye
· Digital collage
Lost Memory
· Digital collage
Broken Mirror
· Digital collage
Fragile Truth
· Digital collage
Sacred Appearance
· Digital collage
Mystical Reflection
· Digital collage
Mythic Memory
· Digital collage
About the Artist

Dr. Işık Sungurlar Baysal
Dr. Işık Sungurlar Baysal is a visual artist, poet, and researcher born in Istanbul in 1987. She graduated from the Department of Plastic Arts at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maltepe University, in 2011. She completed her master’s degree in Painting at Işık University in 2013 and earned her PhD in Art Studies in 2021. Working across painting, collage, and poetry, her artistic practice explores personal experience, identity, space, loneliness, and existential inquiry. Her solo exhibitions include States of Women (2017) and In Praise of the Absent (2022). She is also the author of the poetry collections Winter Pain in Spring (2019) and The Chair Across from Me Is Empty (2022), as well as the academic publication The Unease of Home: A Phenomenological Inquiry (2026).