FLIGHT 620
Flight 620 was the flight number of the plane I took to get to Turkey making the beginning of this journey. That long passage between the deep-rooted culture of Morocco and the simple everyday life of Anatolia naturally created a unique synthesis in my art. I have never built my relationship with painting solely on academic discipline; my path emerged from intuition, observation, and an inner necessity.
Today, I transform my canvases into a visual language that reflects the emotional layers migration has left within me, my endless search for belonging, and the transitions between cultures.
In my works, as I bring figure and emotion together, I invite you not only to look, but to feel alongside me. With every line I draw, I bear witness to a woman’s struggle for life, her silent resistance, and her effort to exist again despite everything.
This exhibition is not only my personal story; it is a reflection of the shared emotions of many women who have migrated and who seek to carve out a place for themselves within a new identity. Through my brush, I aim to transform silence into language, fragility into strength, and fleeting transitions into lasting memory. In each work, I build a bridge between past and present, offering a visual narrative of womanhood, resilience, and the courage to begin again.
JAMILA KIR
Born in Marrakech, Jamila Kır moved to Turkey after completing higher education in network studies and settled in Eskişehir. Following many years of an intensive professional career, she returned to painting, which had entered her life during childhood as a means of expression. Since 2020, by participating in various exhibitions and competitions, the artist has made her work visible, and painting gradually evolved from a hobby into a personal and cultural language of expression.
Jamila Kır is a contemporary artist who addresses the concepts of space, memory, and cultural identity through a multi-layered narrative. Through architectural details, traces of everyday life, and symbolic figures, she invites the viewer into a geography that is both familiar and dreamlike. The balance between color, rhythm, and form reveals the visual dialogue she establishes between past and present, individual memory and collective culture.
