Bringing together works by Merve Denizci, Didem Erbaş, Gizem Ünlü, Ece Yalçın and Zeynep Yılmaz, the exhibition comes together through a process of attunement to different modalities. Soft infrastructures are the invisible, non-physical systems that shape how we feel, relate, and process emotional protocols, algorithmic environments, perceptual norms, sensory habits. Unlike hard infrastructures (roads, cables, buildings), soft infrastructures operate through interface, feedback, and affect. They include platforms, rituals, ambient signals, metadata, intimacy, and even collective moods. They are how power, care, and meaning are distributed subtly: through tone, tempo, friction, or silence. They emerge through tone, latency, glitch, repetition. They include systems of care, platforms of feeling, sensory algorithms. And yet, when overstimulated or abandoned, these networks begin to collapse inward. What remains is not despair, but a kind of atmospheric nihilism—a drift state where meaning is ambient and decisions are deferred.

Rather than asking what is real, the exhibition wonders how reality is felt: what kinds of sensing, stretching, and soft reprogramming are possible in the interfaces between body, environment, and digital textures. These works do not impose meaning but suggest rhythms, thresholds, and patterns, contextualised to consider how reality is shaped affectively, synthetically, and sensorially. Bringing forward sensoriums that are sometimes barely perceptible: a movement in peripheral vision, a familiar unfamiliarity, a shift in inner weather. Thus, the exhibition moves through smaller registers: fragments, textures, pauses. The exhibition suggests that we already live within synthetic realities, beyond mere distortions of the real, but within environments that participate in shaping how we connect, touch, or withdraw. These are not cold simulations but soft infrastructures of affect, intimacy, and relation.

Text: Evagoria Dapola