Tres Specula / Three Reflections

April 7th  – May 7th, 2026

EKAV / Education, Culture and Research Foundation is pleased to host the exhibition “Tres Specula / Three Reflections” at Ekavart Gallery from April 7 to May 7, 2026. Organized in collaboration with Abitus Art Projects and under the coordination of Yasemin Semercioğlu, the exhibition brings together the works of three artists—Çiçek Benardete, Pembe Tüzüner, and Tina Varon—on a common intellectual ground, exploring the expressive possibilities of painting, sculpture, and glass across various disciplines.

Meaning “three mirrors” in Latin, Tres Specula refers to the reflective power of art and the artist’s unique perception of the world. While each artist reconstructs reality within their own practice, they reveal both the visible and the underlying emotional and intellectual layers through material and form.

The featured artists—Çiçek Benardete, Pembe Tüzüner, and Tina Varon—converge in a shared field of inquiry despite working with different media: the reflections created by form, light, and surface. Within the exhibition space, the relationship between sculpture and space, the color and rhythm evolving on the canvas, and the dialogue between diverse materials and light transform into three distinct yet complementary modes of expression. The encounter of these three individual approaches offers the viewer a multi-layered visual experience within the same venue.

Çiçek Benardete’s paintings invite the viewer on a journey into the social life of the 1960s and 1970s. Through a figurative narrative, the artist reconstructs scenes of nightlife, entertainment culture, and daily life. Through dancing couples, lounges, bars, and domestic scenes, the atmosphere, social relations, and collective memory of an era are revitalized on the canvas.

Pembe Tüzüner’s metal sculptures render visible a dialogue between nature and industrial materials. While bird figures evoke freedom and movement, and floral forms suggest the continuity and regenerative power of nature, her abstract shapes point to the potential of matter and the limits of imagination. The artist reinterprets the rhythm of nature in sculptural form by revealing the fluidity hidden within the rigid and cold structure of metal.

Tina Varon’s sculptures are an investigation of form built on the tension between fragility and durability, and perfection and imperfection. In addition to the interplay of glass and light, the artist addresses concepts of nature, movement, and transformation through animal figures and abstract forms developed with metal and various materials.

While bringing together the ways in which these three artists perceive and reflect the world through diverse materials and modes of expression, “Tres Specula / Three Reflections” invites the audience to Ekavart Gallery to reconsider the relationships between form, light, and surface.