Kasa Galeri will host Saadet Sorgunlu’s solo exhibition “The Name Remained in the Chest (Hidden)” from August 20 to September 7, 2025. Bringing together various media such as textile and installation, the exhibition reveals the suppressed, forgotten, or erased stories of women through the metaphor of the dowry chest. Treating women’s garments not merely as objects or decorative items, but as vessels of memory, tools of narrative, and symbols of resistance, Sorgunlu makes visible the outcries concealed in every stitch and tear of the dowry. While tracing the traditional roles imposed on women by society, the works also bear witness to the silence sewn into dowries, and to the names and lives abandoned to oblivion.
“The Name Remained in the Chest (Hidden)” is more than a commemorative art project dedicated to femicide victims; it is a poetic and political stance that amplifies the voices of survivors, transforming their resistance into an enduring artistic narrative. Every seam is a wound, every garment a memory, every piece of fabric a call to defiance. Sorgunlu’s long-standing feminist approach manifests in this exhibition as both an aesthetic and a political act. By deconstructing traditional forms and reassembling them, the artist asks a pressing question: How many more women will have their names remain in the chest? The exhibition invites viewers to bear witness—actively, consciously, and with empathy.
About the Artist
Saadet Sorgunlu graduated from the Graphic Design Department of Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts. After a career in both teaching and academia, she continues to produce work in her studio located in Yeldeğirmeni/Kadıköy, Istanbul. Her artistic practice revolves around gender roles, female identity, and collective memory. Her solo exhibitions include Sökük (Bayanyanı Artproject, 2018), Katilsen Erkeksin (Karşı Sanat, 2012), Sade’ce (KHAS, 2007), and Özfallus (Galeri-X, 2006). In addition to her exhibitions, Sorgunlu is the initiator and organizer of several performative art actions that question the role of art in public space.
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