I Don't Know Where It Will Fall: Defne Tesal

Galerist presents Defne Tesal's first solo exhibition at the gallery, titled I Don't Know Where It Will Fall, between March 10 and April 18, 2026. Shaped around the concepts of change, transitional states, uncertainty, the search for control, and surrender, the exhibition focuses on the idea of rooting oneself amidst this perpetual movement. As the world, the body, and relationships continuously shift in relation to time and space, Tesal invites viewers not to seek fixed points, but to look from within movement itself.

The significant elements of the artist’s practice, rhythm, repetition, and movement, find expression across different surfaces and materials in the exhibition. Canvas paintings, works on cardboard, jute sculpture, and a site-specific rope installation come together as components of a sequential composition.

I Don’t Know Where It Will Fall takes shape at thresholds where the familiar and the unknown intersect. The exhibition renders visible the state of remaining between safe territories and situations that cannot be controlled, the inclination to redraw the boundaries of the self, and, at certain moments, surrender as the only instinctual response.

Sudden ruptures that emerge within the flow of everyday life constitute one of the exhibition’s key points. Events often appear within such cracks; intervals in which old meanings begin to dissolve offer a ground upon which a new truth may take root. Transitions in which control is lost and the old and the new intermingle remind us that transformation can be painful yet liberating.