Curated by Oğuz Karakütük, I Need a Little More Time focuses on photo-based production and brings together the works of 21 artists from Türkiye and other regions. The exhibition highlights the possibilities and boundaries of photography, shedding light on the medium’s increasingly diverse forms of expression today.
Moving beyond the idea of photography as a medium that freezes a single “moment,” the exhibition presents works that unfold over extended periods, involve interventions, and emphasize a conceptual approach. The phrase “I need a little more time” is not only an individual request but also reflects the desire to expand and redefine the boundaries of photography itself. The works in the exhibition offer an intuitive, polyphonic, and fluid approach in opposition to rapid production practices, fixed forms of representation, and technical determinism. By making visible the gestures of the production process, the tools used, and surface transformations, the exhibition positions photography not merely as a representational tool but as a material and intellectual field of production.
The exhibition is accompanied by a publication with texts by curator Oğuz Karakütük, Caroline von Courten, and Ömer Şişman, designed by Nazlı Deniz Oğuz.