Eyes Linger, Mind Follows

28 Mar - 06 Apr, 2025

Artists:
Burhan Kum
Sema Maşkılı
Djochkoun Sami
Şevket Sönmez
Aslı Torcu

52 rue Piat, Belleville
75020 Paris
M° Belleville ou Pyrénées

Vernissage
Friday 28 Mar, 6-9pm

Opening times
Monday-Sunday from 2pm to 7pm

Between seeing and understanding lies a critical pause—a fleeting but vital moment where the eye lingers, and the mind begins to shape what it perceives. "Eyes Linger, Mind Follows" explores this transformative space, where vision and thought converge and begin to take form through an accumulation of marks and gestures while a painterly process builds and acquires a physical presence.

Each of the participating artists engages with this act of looking—how attention settles, how perception evolves, and how meaning unfolds through the medium of painting. Deliberately working with various forms of painterly expression, their common denominator is negotiating painting as a visual language.

Embracing the principle of “Nullius in verba”, these artists reject being confined by dichotomies of tendencies and the shifting waves of temporary fashions in the art world. Instead, they navigate through those tendencies in their own ways, and now -by acting together- they turn the spotlight on their own terms. Rejecting to chase trends, the exhibition seeks a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the processes of looking, constructing meaning, and self-expression.

Joseph Brodsky once suggested that beauty is not just seen but absorbed, leaving an imprint on the mind long after the gaze has shifted away. "Eyes Linger, Mind Follows" embodies this idea, considering what we see, understand, commodify and even iconize takes shape over time.