“PresentAbsent,” curated by Merve Elveren and Meriç Öner, will be on display at YUNT from 11 October 2025 to 16 August 2026. Through people, objects, places, and times, it reveals past and future imaginings that are tangential to each other over the course of a year in three sections. In the exhibition that leap across different moments and geographies, participants reinterpret their research and productions through the lens of a destabilized tension between the private and public.

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Between October 11, 2025 and February 1, 2026, the first chapter of the project, "PresentAbsent: Alive", brings together a selection from architectural historian Gürbey Hiz’s critical atlas of modernity—developed through his study of the science and literature magazine Servet-i Fünûn—with artist Emre Hüner’s video Neochronophobiq (2015) and the ceramic characters he designed for it.