For her exhibition Sûr, Fatoş İrwen chose the soil, the earth of her homeland, Diyarbakır, as a theme. This land, the earth of Diyarbakır, where the largest Kurdish majority in Turkey lives, holds not only past and current political histories with its people, its beliefs, its casualties, but also the memory of Mesopotamian civilizations. According to Islamic belief, Sûr is the instrument (trumpet) that the angel Isrâfil will blow to announce the arrival of the Day of Judgment. One could say that Sûr processes death and life together and captures the equation of Death and Resurrection across time. In Kurdish, sûr means border/wall/façade or it can refer to pointing out, calling or making a sound, while it sounds the same as Sur, a district of Diyarbakır. This exhibition will bring all these meanings together into common ground.