Labirent Sanat invites viewers to confront the most primal, fragile, and striking reality of the human body with Nesli Türk’s solo exhibition, “RAW-HAM,” running from May 16 to July 4, 2026.

Treating the body not as a realm of aesthetic representation but as a biological "raw" material fraught with leakages, the exhibition calls upon the audience to explore the fragile layers of flesh through forms that reference blood, tissue, and microorganisms. Reading the conflict between nature and culture through a primal life drive (biophilia), “RAW-HAM” renders visible the wild and tactile truth of life that seeps from beneath its cultural shell.

Focusing on peeling back the thin veil/skin that civilization has drawn between humans and their own nature, the exhibition strips the body of its status as an idealized image, transforming it into a constantly shifting, seeping, and fragmenting biological excavation site. With a robust theoretical foundation spanning structural anthropology, sociology, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and art, “RAW-HAM” aims to jolt the viewer not with the illusion of aesthetic beauty, but with the cold, clinical, and organic truth of existence.

The paintings and sculptures in the exhibition stage the collapse of the disciplined modern body. The cellular overflows, clots, and infections emerging on the canvases signify the rupturing of the skin—civilization's protective shield—and the outward seepage of an internally contained, repressed organic reality. Türk’s brushstrokes, which virtually transform paint into flesh and raw material, create a destructive dissolution that subverts anthropocentric aesthetics.

Forging a connection with the body-centric aesthetics of contemporary cinema and art, the exhibition frames its color palette not as a decorative choice, but as a biological imperative. Creating the perception of a warm and seeping surface for the viewer, this visual language translates that profound and uncanny instinct toward life and the living into a literally tactile experience.

Nesli Türk’s exhibition "RAW-HAM"—which pulls humanity out of the comfortable constructs of civilization, leaving it face-to-face with the biological origins of its desires lurking beneath the skin, alongside the dark aspects and shadow of its existence—can be visited at Labirent Sanat between May 16 and July 4, 2026.