Yeliz Sık CIFTCI | 51st Minute | DG Gallery & Project

Artist and clinical psychologist Yeliz Şık Çifçi presents her first solo exhibition titled “51st Minute,” curated by Dr. Zeynep Öztürk. In this exhibition, the artist transforms the therapist’s unconscious into visual imagery, examining the stages of love and forms of relating to the other from a therapist’s perspective.

Addressing “the stages of love and the relationships established with the other” through the lens of a therapist, the exhibition consists of an imaginary narrative shaped by the traces left in the therapist’s inner world — and the unspoken — after years of listening to love stories as a clinical psychologist.

At the end of a 50-minute psychotherapy session, the client leaves the room; however, the client’s story continues within the therapist’s mind, body, and unconscious. In “51st Minute,” the artist translates this threshold moment — when the therapist confronts themselves after the session — into an associative visual language inspired by the phases of love: beginning, separation, and healing.