"When 2 million people marched against the war in February 2003, I felt we were one. Nobody was a foreigner in that rally”

Those were Kağan's words to Socialist Worker Newspaper in 2006. The tags (so-called identities) obscure the essence. Ethnic, political, and gender tags limit who we are. All tags point to foreigners. They refer to what we are and what others are not. Kağan had a "refugee" tag living in Britain. Had another "Turkish artist" tag. Not mentioning other tags followed each one of us. All his artistic creation was to construct a language that defies tags, that dethrones "the other". In his paintings, all worlds melt into one colour palette that represents the oneness of cultures, worlds, and stories. It can be said that all he wanted to convey with his art is "Nobody is a foreigner". We are one!

View the exhibition booklet here.

Free exhibition, open to the public every Thursday and Friday between 12-6pm.