coming up.. PV at May 1st… at Pink Floyd’s old music studio ✨
see you there✨
@artembassynetwork presents the Spring exhibition:
“Weight in Translation” part of our 2026 programme.
Private View: Friday, 1 May | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: 35 Britannia Row, London N1 8QH
Featuring: Ana Bridgewater, Nicolo Cambrai, Cas Campbell, Rene Lazovy, Lisa Pettibone, Iseult Pigot, Diana Puntar, Edward Raneri, Kenji Sakai, Hiro Shen, Tutu Tugce Sonmez, Jan Valik, and Elina Yumasheva.
Curated by: @rodrigochaveiro.art & @edwardraneri Raneri.
The exhibition runs from 1-14 May.
Open Wednesday to Sunday, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM.
With the support of @florencetrust
Meet Tutu Tuğçe Sönmez, one of the 16 artists of Loop State.
Tutu Tuğçe Sönmez is a London-based artist and sculptor, originally from Izmir, Turkey. She completed her studies at Michigan State University, earning degrees in Studio Arts and Marketing. Her practice is rooted in exploring identity and the human psyche, examining the tensions and contrasts between internal states, external pressures, fragility, and materiality. Beyond form, she navigates material as a territory for emotional inquiry.
Her work has been exhibited and collected in cities including London, Berlin, and Shanghai. She has also presented her research at conferences hosted by institutions such as the University of Cambridge and Regent’s University. Sönmez is currently a participant in an independent art education collective (MYOM), where she continues to develop new bodies of work through advanced research and experimentation.
αI (Alpha I)
2023
Clay, Glaze
62x45x19cm
On view at D Contemporary, 1 Birdcage Walk, London SW1H 9JJ until April 16.
Plan your visit • RSVP at [email protected]@tutu___________________ curated by @niacurates at @dcontemporary
#LoopState #ContemporaryArt #LondonArt #ArtExhibition
beta reflections
beta I and beta tunes explore beta brain activity through sculpture and sound.
a collaboration with @yasminr.ai ✨
first presented at St. Augustine’s Tower as part of the Sonorous show by @taeproject_
This week in our ‘Introducing’ series, we’re featuring work by Turkish artist Tutu Tugce Sonmez.
Tutu works across clay, photography, and found objects. Her practice explores emotion, identity, and existence through materiality, using everyday materials to evoke memory and introspection. Engaging with both personal and global concerns—especially environmental themes—her work invites reflection on the fragile, interconnected nature of being.
Pictured here are sculptures from her Alpha and Beta series. The Alpha series is inspired by Carl Jung’s concept of individuation, where each sculpture reflects a unique stage in the journey toward self-realization and integration. The Beta series explores heightened states of mental activity associated with beta brain waves. Each piece gives form to alertness, internal movement, and cognitive tension, inviting viewers into a state of inner navigation where meaning emerges through repetition, motion, and the search for resolution.
Images:
1. α II Vulva (London, 2023), Tutu Tugce Sonmez
2. βII (London, 2023), Tutu Tugce Sonmez
3. αIII (London, 2023), Tutu Tugce Sonmez
4. βI (London, 2023), Tutu Tugce Sonmez
#babestation #sculpture #clay #TutuTugceSonmez
and as my last post I want to share some of my inspirations. Captured with analogue camera and iPhone. Some of them in form, some in colour but all of them in meaning. Inspiration is a funny thing; it’s about a certain feeling that I prefer to express through my images.
@tutu___________________
A different kind of work of mine. I’m drawn to exploring and crossing into different fields, questions, and ways of searching for deeper meaning. Born in the studio when stillness turned into motion, Tavaf became a quiet ritual, somewhere between rest, reflection, and repetition.
Tavaf (London, 2024)
Handcam and iPhone Recording
Tavaf, from the Turkish word meaning to circle a sacred site, was born from the artist’s need to pause during making. The body asked for rest, yet the work held the artist close, impossible to leave even for a moment. When the studio lights repeatedly shut off, circular movements to reactivate the sensor became part of the process, slowly forming a ritual of their own.
Tavaf explores the rhythm of daily routines and the interplay between intentional and unintentional actions, confined to the authenticity of actual time and space. At its core, it captures a meditative ritual born from necessity, an instinctive and repetitive movement performed around a metal structure assembled by the artist. The structure consists of discarded industrial lighting panels salvaged from the trash room of the artist’s studio building, objects once integral to the building’s function but now rendered obsolete, slowly disappearing as urban spaces undergo demolition and renewal.
These metal pieces, arranged under the ceiling light sensor, became both a marker of the space and the catalyst for this unplanned ritual. Each time the studio lights shut off, the artist’s circular movement reactivated the sensor, briefly illuminating the room. This repeated action, performed over days and months, transformed into a meditative and profound exploration of stillness, rhythm, and reflection.
The discarded lighting panels, industrial and mundane, are recontextualized through this process. Once functional objects, they now serve as a site for movement and reflection, bridging the tension between permanence and disappearance. By capturing this repetitive sequence, Tavaf highlights how the interruptions of urban life can give rise to unexpected rituals, senseless yet grounding, robotic yet spiritual.
lately exploring new mediums… out of curiosity, the need to expand, and just to have some fun with making again.
many thanks to my brilliant teacher @annazuevaanna and @camocagi_theglassfurnace
cover (film photography) by @cankoroglu , with @kristinaaliberti in front of my old studio 🦢
