C.A.M. Gallery will host Amar Kılıç’s solo exhibition titled “ŞîN” from December 19th, 2024, to January 25th, 2025.

“ŞîN” offers layers of meaning stretching from mythical divine narratives to the oral and visual memory of the present. It creates a connection between mythological, traditional, and contemporary stories, establishing a sense of historical and cultural continuity. Through the symbolic use of the color blue, it highlights themes such as mourning, transitions, and historical transformations within the urban fabric. This visual language provides a multidimensional narrative by portraying living and non-living entities through photography.

The meanings of the blue in local languages intertwine with mythical characters such as Inanna and Dumuzi, symbolizing seasonal changes, human transitions, and architectural symbols lost, forgotten, or distorted throughout history. Through photography, these elements are reassembled into visual depth. Like Inanna’s journey to the “land of no return,” the project confronts remnants of the past with stark reality.

The narrative of Tiamat and Marduk, centered around victory and defeat, unfolds through photographs that question forgotten beginnings, where new life sprouts from Tiamat’s destruction. The exhibition draws viewers into an associative composition, symbolizing architectural remnants of the city’s former inhabitants. Objects such as architectural structures, pigeons, and keys transform the officially marked blue points in historical records into a new visual language. Every flying pigeon, every rusted key, every wall and embroidery turned blue and moldy under harsh sunlight and spring moss merge with the chemical processes of blues symbolizing mourning and memory recollection.

Inanna and Dumuzi turn blue again among fertility fish, healing serpents, and pigeons, within the stone walls and homes of the city’s former inhabitants, embedded in the warm urban architecture — like the bluing of spring taken away by those who departed.