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exhibitions2026 something in us that isn’t us, Yüzonbir, İstanbul, TR
2025 Süperendişe, Kiralık Depo, İstanbul, TR
2024 Sense of Earth, Barbare Studio, Tekirdağ, TR
2024 home, Barınhan, İstanbul, TR
2023 i'll see it when i believe it, Alman Generalin Evi, Büyükada
2023 Body Art Resistance, Karşı Sanat, İstanbul, TR
2023 Encounter, FreyaAlt, İstanbul, TR
2022 Akaretler Open Air, Bilgili Sanat, İstanbul, TR
2022 Witness, Ferda Art Platform, İstanbul, TR
2022 Akbank 40. Günümüz Sanatçıları Ödüllü Sergisi, Akbank Sanat, İstanbul, TR
2020 37,5, Whydah Gallery, İstanbul, TR
2020 Singing over the bones, Eksibir, İstanbul, TR
2019 Undergraduate Degree Show, Goldsmiths College,UK
2019 Dream States, Non Dual, London, UK
2019 Real?, Out of the Brew, London, UK
2018 Project One Take II, Non Dual , London, UK
2017 Project one Take, Non Dual, London, UK
2017 Expanded City, Hoxton Basement, London, UK
2016 Art Academy Show, Art Academy, London, UK
Lalin Mercan (b. 1992, Istanbul) works across drawing, installation and sculpture, developing a narrative-based practice concerned with the formation and transformation of subjectivity. Approaching narrative as an unstable field rather than a fixed structure, she constructs scenes, objects and environments through layering, automatic drawing, and hybrid material processes.
Drawing extensively from feminist literature, speculative fiction, and expanded notions of agency across human and non-human worlds, Mercan’s work engages with fragmented structures, shifting perspectives, and forms of narration that resist closure. Cultural and historical references intermingle with mythological and autobiographical moments, alongside impressions that surface unexpectedly and remain recorded in the body; in skin, muscles, gestures, and forms of embodied memory. Through these intersections, she explores perception, memory, and evolving forms of selfhood.
She undertook undergraduate studies in Fine Art at Goldsmiths University and lives and works in Istanbul.