ESRA MENGüLEREK
Breaking Threshold

Breaking Threshold makes the overlapping times of space visible. The landscape we see while walking through the city is often not the buildings themselves, but a continuous oscillation formed by the multiplying reflections on their surfaces. Massive structures cease to be singular objects; every refraction of light, every angle, transforms them into an ever-changing visual rhythm. With each step and from every point of view, the buildings reproduce themselves—distinct for a moment, then taking on another form the next.

This reconstruction occurs not only in what we directly perceive, but also within the secondary image fields opened up by reflection. The reflection does not simply replicate the space; it distorts the form, linking together traces of time, multiplying perception, and generating a new layer. What we see in the reflection tries to decipher what is what; this slippage reminds us that reality is not a singular structure, but something that can take on a different state on

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Esra Mengülerek shapes her artistic practice around the human-space relationship, the traces of waste and memory, the conflicted continuity between nature and man, and the dialectic of self-body. In the artist's production, space is not just a physical environment; it is positioned as an element that is woven with social contexts, carries emotional and historical burdens, and comes into existence in mutual interaction with the subject. Shaped by the presence of human beings and constructing its own narrative in their absence, spaces become the bearer of both individual and collective memory. In this context, concepts such as abandonment, trace, waste and silence gain new meaning in the artist's works. The depletion of natural resources, environmental memory and the permanent traces left by humans on nature create a field of inquiry through visual language.In the artist's practice, the body takes place as a surface that mediates the expression of the inner. The relatio

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