ELIF SEZEN
SPACE 1
Exhibition dates : 14 - 26 July 2026
Opening reception : Wed 15 July 2026, 6:00 - 8:30pm
ATMOSPHERES II
Elif Sezen’s works from her ongoing series, Presence, explore the interplay of space, colour and light in experimental landscapes that reflect on perception, memory and place. Combining painting, photography and digital media, Elif presents archival metallic prints that consider how light can be observed as symbolic and mystical gateways. In these light-portals colour becomes a subtle energetic force, guiding viewers through states of awareness, contemplation and healing. These specific works draw on various sources of inspiration including ‘quantum entanglement’ and Michel Foucault’s notion of ‘heterotopias’—worlds within worlds— to evoke ethereal, alternate realities that are at once cosmic and deeply introspective.
Her work conjures dreamlike atmospheres—ranging from imagined galaxies and symbolic geometries to surreal, abstract forms—inviting audiences into immersive, otherworldly environments. Although partly reminiscent of nature, these ethereal worlds seek to expand the intangible experience of entering a new space physically, spiritually, psychologically, ontologically and cosmologically.
Bio
Elif Sezen is a Melbourne-based multidisciplinary artist, writer/poet. She holds a PhD in Fine Art from Monash. For over a decade, Elif has been investigating possibilities of reconceptualising and poeticising memory traces, existential states and a sense of place through poetry-based installations, photographic and sculptural works, paintings and mixed-media landscapes/mindscapes. Her landscapes explore otherworldly atmospheres with abstract, surreal, ethereal, celestial and psychedelic impressions.
Selected shows include JAHM (Recent acquisitions display-2026), Five Walls (‘Atmospheres’, solo show-2025), MAPh (LOOK! Prize-2025), MAC Yapang (MAC Yapang Art Prize-2025), Project8 Gallery (2024), The National Portrait Gallery Canberra (Darling Portrait Prize-2024), CICA Museum-Korea (2024).