“This Place of Nowhere is my homeland.
I have never felt as belonging to anywhere else as much as I do to Nowhere.
Because in Nowhere everything is possible; a withered leaf can seep into a freshly blossoming bud, blues dance with reds, opposites merge into a single body in this space.”
Dolce Paganne reconstructs this realm she calls Nowhere by dissolving the boundaries of reality and reweaving it with the symbols of her inner world. This space is both a refuge and an experimental laboratory; here, nature, body, and mind intermingle.
Nowhere becomes a threshold where the artist gathers her feelings of rootlessness and belonging, childhood impressions, myths, dreams, and the shadowy underlayers of the everyday. It is a realm where time is suspended and logic ceases to be the sole explanation; figures, stories, and fragments are added onto one another, and no single image submits to a fixed meaning. The viewer finds themselves confronted with an open field—one they must complete through their own experience.
Dolce Paganne invites the viewer not merely to look, but to gaze into their own fractures, their repressed images, and the possibility of alternative realities.
The exhibition can be visited between 20 November – 20 December 2025 at x-ist’s Gümüşsuyu space.