SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Forbidden Games /From Tarlabaşı to Oxford Streets -2024

https://fusion-arts.org/

“Forbidden Games” is a project that was created  created in 2019 in collaboration with sisters Havin and Seval in Istanbul’s Tarlabaşı District. Inspired by Bauhaus aesthetics, the series playfully connects different worlds and eras through costume, movement, and photography. Rooted in the streets of Tarlabaşı, where I have long documented the lives of immigrant children, the project moved to Oxford in 2024—carrying with it the spirit of resistance, imagination, and collaboration that first brought it to life. In its current iteration, “Forbidden Games” is being exhibited at Fusion Window Galleries, opening up a space where street performance, visual storytelling, and feminist play intersect across geographies.

https://fusion-arts.org/whats-on/forbidden-games-from-tarlaba%C5%9F%C4%B1-to-oxford-streets-artwork-by-s%C4%B1la-yalazan

Flowers in Concrete  /London /2024

https://www.photobookcafe.co.uk/

https://www.photobookcafe.co.uk/whats-on/flowers-in-concrete-by-gl-demirda-featuring-artist-sla-yalazan

Sıla Yalazan’s pop-up exhibition named “Flowers in Concrete”, named after the Heresy song with the same title, held in  “The Photobook Cafe” on May 29, 2024, appears as an archive of children’s resistance against gentrification, and subculture’s last struggle against government policies in Turkey.

PHOTOS: Akbank Sanat and Acik Diyalog and Sila Yalazan

2020
212 İnternational Photography Festival. Group Exhibiton. “Perform and Negotiate”.
Curated by Ali Taptık.
https://212photographyistanbul.com/en/2020/exhibitions-2020/

2019
Kıraathane. Istanbul Literature House. Solo Exhibition. ”Yasak Oyunlar “ (Forbidden Games).
http://kiraathane.com.tr/sezon-programi/2019-04-05-yasak-oyunlar
https://www.unlimitedrag.com/post/tarlabai-avangarde