Artist Elif Varol Ergen’s “Unseen Daughters” exhibition, which presents powerful narratives about women’s identity, can be visited at the Kyrenia University Grand Library Exhibition Hall until June 13th.
Artist Elif Varol Ergen’s solo exhibition “Unseen Daughters”, which presents a powerful and impressive narrative about women’s identity, has opened for visitors at the Kyrenia University Grand Library Exhibition Hall.

The exhibition, which previously opened with the participation of President Ersin Tatar at the Near East University Atatürk Culture and Congress Center Exhibition Hall and met with art lovers, will remain open for visitors in Kyrenia until June 13th.

Consisting of works that aim to make visible women’s identities that society ignores, suppresses and excludes, the main theme of the artworks was inspired by mythological figures such as Eve, who was expelled from heaven, and Lilith, who left heaven of her own free will. In her works, Elif Varol Ergen focuses on women’s lives woven with family structure, gender roles and cultural codes, and she makes visible the representations of women that are tried to be suppressed in individual and collective memory with an artistic language.

The exhibition, which opened as the 472nd exhibition of the Cyprus Museum of Modern Arts, includes 37 works produced with printmaking and illustration techniques.

Who is Elif Varol?
Elif Varol Ergen is an artist and academic who has been trying to make visible themes such as women’s rights, gender discrimination, parent-child relationships and the subconsciousness through her art for over 14 years. The artist, who often uses feminist discourses, women’s interpretations in esoteric sources and mythological metaphors in her works, reflects strong and rebellious female characters with a dark narrative language.

Elif Varol Ergen, who has been a faculty member at the Department of Graphics of Hacettepe University’s Faculty of Fine Arts for over 16 years, completed her undergraduate, graduate and doctoral education at the same university. The artist, who started her artistic career with children’s books and editorial illustrations, gradually focused on social issues and women rights representation.

Her artistic productions have been exhibited in Turkey, as well as in Germany and the United States. She has been honored with various national and international awards. Her art writings and illustrations have appeared in many international art and design magazines; her first art book was published in New York in 2017. She currently works as an Associate Professor at Hacettepe University.