This Might Be the Last Thing You Are Looking At

Martch Art Project in Istanbul presents This Might Be the Last Thing You Are Looking At, a solo exhibition by the Turkish artist Mustafa Boğa. It runs from 18 September to 23 October 2026 at the gallery's space on Sofyalı Sokak in Asmalı Mescit, Beyoğlu. The gallery has not published titles, dates, sizes or media for the five works it illustrates from the show. Boğa works in freehand machine embroidery, video, photography, performance and installation.

No curator is named. The exhibition text is by Sinan Eren Erk, who reads the show as a reflection on endings. In his account an ending loses its usual gloom and stands beside the chance of a fresh start. For Erk, the work moves past the concerns of popular culture into a more personal look at life. The symbols in each work form a puzzle, and in solving it the viewer recalls scenes from the artist's past and from their own.

Erk warns that a first look misleads. Only with time, he writes, do traces of a life lived against the grain appear, and the viewer begins to untie what the artist has knotted into the work. Elsewhere in his practice, Boğa draws on memory, family history and the rituals and landscapes of his childhood in southern Turkey. His sources include family photographs, archival images and home movies. For the fifth Coventry Biennial in 2025 he embroidered a series based on film stills of family weddings and parties.

Martch Art Project represents Boğa, and this is his second solo show with the gallery. The first, All the things I don't want to hear from a politician, ran from 14 September to 5 November 2022. He has also shown in group exhibitions with the gallery since 2018. He trained at Central Saint Martins in London, where he took an MA in Fine Art in 2016, the year he won the Red Mansion Art Prize. His work is in the collection of Odunpazarı Modern Museum in Eskişehir.