Landscapes from Industry is an exhibition that follows the contact made between the artists and the district they chose for their studios and combines this contact with “landscape” to contemplate industry alongside it. In this exhibition, the landscape is presented as both itself and as a strong metaphor.

Starting with the reason why 12 artists chose the industrial district as their studio address, the exhibition touches on the issues of the history, present, the people working within the district, the industrial production itself, or various individual themes along with the new/old works created by artists with studios in this district.

Inspired by this idea, the exhibition brings together the works of Mahmut Aydın, Can Aytekin, Mahmut Celayir, Antonio Cosentino, Ahmet Elhan, Leyla Emadi, İnci Furni, Aynur Önürmen, İrfan Önürmen, Kemal Seyhan Rüçhan Şahinoğlu and Demet Yalçınkaya.

While a great majority of the works created for Landscapes from Industry focuses on the place where artists have studios and, on the production, saving/keeping and throwing away there, some of them focus on the studio itself/interior. The whole of the landscape presented in the exhibition tries to combine the labor power of this place, which has attributes invisible in the city memory, and its own labor power. The whole memory of the city undergoing a constant transformation reaches the industrial districts through scrappers and scavengers. Waste materials that come together in the industrial district and hold the attribute of being the archeological remains of today, come alive sometimes as objects and sometimes as the picture itself by being combined with the physical landscape of the industry.