"In Tuba Geçgel's installation titled 'Until Our Eyes Leave Their Sockets,' we witness a formal and conceptual construction that brings together the human sense of curiosity with the act of seeing. The artwork appears as an intricately woven, specially crafted installation involving video, television, a self-learning artificial intelligence algorithm, sensor-equipped cameras, Plexiglas, fabric, and stitches. Positioned on a red fabric filled with fiberfill, 56 stitched eyes behind Plexiglas gaze outward. Alongside the multidimensional narrative conveyed by soft stitches, fabric, and Plexiglas, a section of the work reveals a nested digital screen where the viewer encounters themselves. Among the stitched eyes, an almost iris-like brain tomography image and, in contrast to the stitches, an actual eye video emerge as a versatile narrative. Crafted with such a pluralistic impulse, the artwork can be observed as many eyes looking outward, yet it also serves as an emotion sensor that turns the viewer inward. When the viewer looks at the artwork from the outside, the installation, equipped with sensor-equipped mechanical cameras and a lens camera above one of the stitched eyes, locks onto the viewer at that moment. On the left side of the artwork, the viewer sees themselves on the screen, and in this reflection, the viewer becomes the one being watched, while the one being watched transforms into the viewer, revealing the striking duality of perception.

Tuba Geçgel's installation, 'Until Our Eyes Leave Their Sockets,' where humans question the universe and themselves, is evaluated through the extreme state of the sense of curiosity, a situation where the individual turns inward with a vulnerable consciousness. The artwork offers the viewer an impressive, perhaps surreal, and ultimately multidimensional experimentation with many eyes looking at the viewer and influencing from the outside in and from the inside out."

Melike Bayık