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Turkish textile artist Firat Neziroglu has brought his solo exhibition "In Between" to New York, where his works are on display at C24 Gallery in the city's Chelsea arts district.
The exhibition brings together Neziroglu's contemporary interpretations of Anatolia's traditional weaving heritage, using textile as a way to carry memory, identity and personal experience into a modern visual language.
Working across textile art, design, performance and education for nearly three decades, Neziroglu approaches weaving not simply as a traditional production technique but as a form of storytelling shaped by cultural memory.
The works featured in "In Between" draw on motifs associated with Anatolian kilims, traditional flat-woven textiles whose patterns can carry symbolic meanings.
Themes including love, protection, separation and hope are reworked through Neziroglu's own weaving techniques, connecting older visual traditions with contemporary artistic expression.
The exhibition also explores the relationship between traditional textile motifs and today's digital image culture. It focuses on how cultural memory, once woven into threads and patterns, is increasingly shaped and passed on through screens and digital imagery.
Drawing on his background in textile and fashion design as well as dance, Neziroglu has developed a hand-weaving technique built around light, shadow and empty space.
He uses threads much like lines in a drawing, while the gaps between them become an active part of the composition rather than simply an absence of material.
Alongside his artistic practice, Neziroglu works with weaving communities across different parts of Türkiye and researches endangered textile techniques and traditional looms, bringing cultural heritage preservation together with contemporary art production.
His multidisciplinary practice spans weaving, sculpture, fashion, dance and performance, while his works have been exhibited across Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the United States.
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