Looking at Marmara from the Shore of All Possibles

As an inland sea, the Marmara Sea carries symbolic meanings through both its limited nature and its role as a gateway to larger seas via the straits. It embodies thresholds, transitions, transformations, and all possibilities. To be on the shore is to exist somewhere between remaining on land and reaching the vastness of the sea— to be both at the center and on the edge. This exhibition is designed to create a space for production across a broad intellectual and visual spectrum, ranging from the fauna and flora along the Marmara coasts to ancient cultural representations, and from the relationship coastal cities have with water to processes of urban transformation.