Untitled by Ezgi Lemur

Ezgi Lemur’s practice explores the relationship between body, perception, and material, approaching the world as a network of surfaces shaped through touch, memory, and contact. Working across textile, photography, and installation, she considers materials as active agents in the formation of meaning.​

Untitled was developed while the artist was temporarily living in Egypt, where she began collecting bougainvillea flowers from her immediate surroundings. 

Hand-stitching them together, she gradually formed a fragile textile that took the shape of a scarf — a form often charged with cultural and political significance, defined as much by its presence as by its absence.

Alongside the textile, Lemur presents photographs documenting the process of making and drying, as well as a handwritten text produced using pigment extracted from the same flowers. The text reproduces a passage from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, known as the “Negative Confession,” whose lines articulate a refusal to exploit or obstruct natural systems.​

The material itself remains in a state of transformation. As the flowers dry, they shift in colour, texture, and scent, making visible a process that is often concealed. This gradual change unfolds over the duration of the exhibition, positioning fragility and impermanence at the centre of the work.​

By bringing together organic matter, ancient text, and a form rooted in the body, Lemur creates a dialogue between past and present, material and meaning — where attention, restraint, and transformation become central to how we understand our relationship to the world.