Chi Art Gallery is pleased to announce Elifko’s third solo exhibition, "The Toy Story".
Curated by T. Melis Golar, the exhibition, which will open on April 10, 2026, in Galata, Beyoğlu, will feature Elifko's most recent works. In the exhibition, where the artist's signature plates and female portraits come together, the story of a toy's inclusion in a child's life and adult portraits will be explored.
In this exhibition, the artist places nostalgia, innocence, and memory on her plate. Canvases that weave between adulthood and childhood, imagination and reality, show that children's games can carry a possibility for the future. While a memory can disappear as quickly as a meal is consumed, a resistance to this transience emerges in the artist's canvases; a desire to preserve, not forget, and maintain value. This effort aims to vacuum-seal and preserve the memory. The clash between past and future and the destructiveness of time become visible through the metaphors of fire and candles.
The artist's narrative, built through Legos, emphasizes the endless possibilities offered by play and how choices among these possibilities shape life. This structure, based on building and deconstructing, keeps a thinking practice alive. At the same time, it points to the butterfly effect created by possibilities between times and lives.