GROUP EXHIBITION | THE SKY WAS CANDY, ARTER, Istanbul

Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin’s artwork Heimat Toprak and a selection of works from the series H-Fact: Hospitality/Hostility are currently on view at Arter until March 28, 2027, as part of the group exhibition titled The Sky was Candy, curated by Selen Ansen. 

 

Suggestive of an outdoor scene infused with childlike sensation, the exhibition’s title draws inspiration from the opening stanza of E. E. Cummings’ "Songs I" (1938). This picturesque phrase that turns the world into something “edible” and colourful by bringing together words that don’t habitually coexist, addresses the ways memory and imagination filter reality, while retaining an abstract quality that allows for multiple interpretations.

July 3, 2026