For the seventh circle of the bEam arts artist residency, the theme is Displacements, in space, in  time and within ourselves. The artists hosted for this month at bEam arts, each and every one of them, with their own unique means, touch on this condition. From endangered animal species that move to other areas to survive and the dérive within a city to the change of gaze in relation to the underwater landscape and the redefinition of the relationship with our own self. Something shifts, transitions, changes form and feeling.

Fulya Bayraktar, combining linoleum engraving and using old travel maps, elaborates on the theme of borders and migration. She uses prints of fauna and flora that have lost their ecosystems and have been forced to move due to human activity. She is concerned with the continuity and interconnection between ecosystems and their disruption, which in reality is not limited to the borders that humans have established. Finding a direct connection between the ecological issues concerning her home area, Gökova, Turkey, and Thessaloniki, she creates works that focus on wildlife and utilizes the surface of the map, not just as a backdrop, but as a question about humanity's claim to sovereignty over the land, the sea and their resources.

Alan Monahan utilizes the practices of painting and poetry in his work in a way that creates connections and dialogues. He draws paintings based on his poems  and vice versa, he writes poems that come from within the visual universe that he creates in his paintings. He touches on themes concerning religious experiences,  human connection, nature beyond man and the question of death. Combining his interest in religious iconography and stories from scripture, he creates a blend of local and global iconography. His works for this exhibition are a further exploration of his already established practice, mapping inner states and psychic landscapes, activating a cycle of deeper inner shifts.

Chiara Rebolino approaches urban exploration as an artistic practice. She collects traces from the city and searches for the hidden language of it. Her main question is how language and communication work within urban space. From her dérive in  the city of Thessaloniki, a multimedia installation emerges, made up of photographs, audio recordings, clay prints from urban objects and a printed book in which she reconstructs the material of her exploration, giving another level of interpretation to her urban recordings. She consciously creates a non-linear narrative, with contradictions between her material, wanting to demonstrate precisely the multiplicity of interpretations and forces that shape the condition of language in urban space.

Burcu Perçin, through the series of paintings entitled “Change of Direction”, turns her gaze to the underwater landscape. Approaching underwater life as an unseen and largely unexplored world, she wants to depict the beauty, vulnerability but also the strength of these invisible ecosystems. Through research on underwater biodiversity, submerged structures and underwater archaeology, she wants to highlight the underwater landscape as something precious, worthy of respect and protection from harmful human activity. Furthermore, through the examination of the traces left by humans underwater, it brings to light the fascinating resilience of natural habitats and their ability to create new living conditions for marine species even under adverse conditions.