Şevket Dağ’s Morning Call to Prayer in Hagia Sophia explores architecture, morning light, worship, silence, memory, and spirituality within the historic interior of Hagia Sophia.
Figures gather around a red table as a saz player, turquoise bottle, mask-like faces, and warm colour create a heavy atmosphere of song and shared memory.
A nude and several simplified figures overlap against a dark ground as striped colour, mask-like faces, and free brushwork create a compressed collective scene.
An art-historical reading of Burhan Doğançay’s Istanbul as a layered urban wall where politics, advertising, warning texts, torn paper, and city memory overlap.
