YELİZ ŞIK ÇİFTÇİ "51st Minute"

"51st Minute" explores the threshold between the end of a psychotherapy session and the thought process that continues within the therapist's mind. The invisible interval that begins once the session has officially concluded forms the conceptual point of departure for the exhibition.

Curated by Zeynep Öztürk, the exhibition considers Yeliz Şık Çifçi's artistic practice through the intersection of psychoanalytic thought and contemporary art, informed by her background in clinical psychology. Bringing together painting, collage, assemblage, and found objects, the works revisit memory, free association, and the unconscious through a layered visual language that questions the limits of representation.

Rather than illustrating specific narratives, the recurring imagery points to meanings that continually shift within memory. Drawing from the experience of psychotherapy, the exhibition navigates the porous boundaries between personal experience and collective memory, consciousness and the unconscious, individual narrative and shared experience.

Rather than offering a representation of psychotherapy itself, 51st Minute examines how thought, memory, and association are translated into visual form. Bringing together a selection of works that reflects Yeliz Şık Çifçi's interdisciplinary practice, the exhibition opens a space for reconsidering the contemporary significance of representation and memory.