This work presents an empty white room where material contrasts define spatial boundaries—dark door, floors, and edges frame the white walls while an almost transparent ceiling dissolves the room's upper limit. The transparency above suggests architectural dematerialization, questioning where the gallery space ends and external reality begins. The dark linear elements anchor the composition, creating tension between solid architectural definition (dark borders) and ethereal dissolution (transparent ceiling), embodying the series' investigation into visibility's limits.
Sukan’s photographic work explores the conventions of the modern white cube as both an architectural context and as a content subject in and of itself. By addressing the notions of spatial memory, presentation, and representation, this exhibition enhances the confrontation between visibility and invisibility in social and phenomenological terms. By means of deconstruction, intervention, and reconstruction of the white cube, Sukan brings complicity between opposites and creates dualism between recognition and non-recognition, visibility and invisibility, abstraction and concrete concepts. The result is an entirely new space, an architecture of past and future, with a continuously shifting viewpoint. Sukan proposes a phenomenal situation, challenging the viewer on the realism of the photograph and the memory of a space, while also opening up the horizons of the viewer’s perception and interpretation of the exhibition's own immediate setting.
Transparent Ceiling White Room explores material contrast—dark edges define space while transparent ceiling dissolves boundaries. From INtheVISIBLE series. Available at The Art Design Project, Miami Beach
Transparent Ceiling White Room - Untitled 24 - Dark Edge Architecture By Sukan
Untitled 24, 2013
From the series of INtheVISIBLE
Archival inkjet print on baryta photographic paper
Dimensions: 31.5 H x 47.25 W in.
Edition of 3 + 1AP
Unframed
Born in Ankara, Turkey in 1973, Sukan's art has been showcased in notable venues worldwide, including Maison des Metallos (Paris), Maxxi Museum (Rome), Istanbul Modern Museum, and major art fairs like Art Basel and FIAC. He currently lives and works between New York and Istanbul.

















