there is life between us (+transparency)

A concise and poetic meditation on materiality—of the body, the image, and thought—by Turkish artist and writer Deniz Gül (*1982).

In there is life between us (+transparency), Gül interweaves forty essayistic fragments into a multilayered inquiry into transparency—not as mere optical clarity, but as a philosophical, ecological, and poetic condition. The text unfolds as a discursive field in which language, perception, and body awareness are put into relation.

Drawing on thinkers such as Henri Bergson, Bruno Latour, Giorgio Agamben, Gilles Deleuze, and Italo Calvino, as well as bodily practices like the Feldenkrais Method, Gül constructs an associative and highly sensuous topography of concepts. Each fragment acts as a point of departure, touching on subjects such as identity, opacity, differentiation, and the limits of visibility.

Gül’s writing challenges the dominance of a Eurocentric, male, rational gaze and instead opens space for a polyphonic form of attention—one that listens, drifts, spins, and senses. The result is a dynamic textual landscape that connects Deligny’s “wandering lines” to Rumi’s whirl, Arachne’s threadwork to Bruce Nauman’s repetitions.

As both sculptor and author, Deniz Gül explores the structures of thought as sculptural forms, and the texture of language as a field of encounter. Her practice inhabits the porous threshold between theory and fiction, installation and text, presence and withdrawal.

Published in 2021 by Notonly Publications (Istanbul) in collaboration with Kunstverein Publishing (Milan).