‘BİR MİNOS HİKAYESİ’

“A Minoan Story”
10 March – 15 April 2026

If we set aside the salty water between us, how close we truly are to one another…

“Culture is closed to everyone who is foreign to it,” Sorokin says in one of his reflections. If we adopt his view, then for someone living on Carian lands it is impossible to be foreign to Minoan culture.

The participants in this exhibition traced the imprint of a great culture and—much like Bach composing a fugue on a theme that was not his own, even wholly unfamiliar—first sketched a disembodied mental map of a culture that belongs to another yet feels profoundly their own. They then brought their emotion-shaped thoughts into conversation with terracotta and sound.

“A Minoan Story” truly tells us a story. Although it roams along the edges of archaeology, it is not an archaeological exhibition, nor does it harden within the analytical discipline of a chronological history. On the contrary, through personal expressions and a sound installation that turns the exhibition into a journey to ancient times, it transforms culture into a collective vision and an artistic proposition.