RESIDENCY EXHIBITION SERIES
GÜRKAN MARUF MIHÇI: “DESCENT INTO CONCEALMENT: DERINKUYU”
MAR 12 – APR 12, 2026
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“Descent into Concealment: Derinkuyu” features web-based artworks by
@PlexusProjects Artist-in-Residence Gürkan Maruf Mıhçı (
@gurkanmarufmihci ). The exhibition includes an interactive 360 cinematic environment constructed from a recreated 3D model of Derinkuyu Underground City. The video is accompanied by an original soundscape rooted in ancient devotional atmospheres. Mıhçı’s work invites audiences to descend through underground corridors, thresholds, and chambers that can be interpreted as both survival infrastructures and ritual spaces.
“…The project reframes Derinkuyu Underground City—not as an archaeological site and museum, but as architecture of refuge: a living system built through ventilation, concealment, and collective endurance…”
— Gürkan Maruf Mıhçı
Gürkan Maruf Mıhçı, PhD, is an interdisciplinary artist, working at the intersections of creative technology and critical theory to interrogate complex topics in science, politics, and ecology. Mıhçı‘s work has been presented at Apartment Project (Berlin), Bilsart (Istanbul), Gallery 924 (Indianapolis), Maquis Projects (Izmir), Agitator (Chicago), Gallery 263 (Boston), 35 Festival Les Instants Video (Marseille/Milan), ALC Video Art Festival (Alicante), CuVo Video Art Festival (Madrid), Vertifilms Film Festival (Prague), and Miami New Media Festival (Miami and Táchira). He was an affiliated researcher and artist-in-residence at University of Greenwich, London, Sound/Image Center and an artist-in-residence on Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior Ship. He has been recognized with awards from The Christel DeHaan Family Foundation and Indy Arts Council, Art-X Gallery Innovation, and IU Presidential Arts and Humanities Awards.
online exhibition curated by
@laurasplan
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