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  1. “Protection Space” is a long-term, process-based textile installation that explores protection as a personal, symbolic, and collective necessity. The work consists of textile objects — shields, masks, totemic pillars, and protective figures — which together form a spatial installation.

    The project is rooted in the research of protective rituals and visual traditions from different cultures and historical periods, translated into a contemporary visual language. Through textile techniques, layering, appliqué, stitching, and intuitive image-making, the objects become carriers of strength, vigilance, and symbolic protection.

    The installation is not fixed in scale or form. New textile objects continue to be created, and each exhibition is adapted to the specific architecture and atmosphere of the space. When shown together, the works generate a shared field of protection, responding to the place, time, and social context in which they are exhibited.