Eda Emirdağ

Open Eye Gallery | Liverpool, United Kingdom

SAHA supports Eda Emirdağ’s new project titled Belly Button on Open Eye Gallery Liverpool between 15 – 30 March 2025. In this project, the artist examines the effects of the beauty industry on the female body from a point of view in which the artist's point of view, formed by the artist's witnessing of the subject, is addressed and tries to convey knowledge. The project will be further deepened by an art talk as part of the Social Engaged Photography Network (SEPN). In this event, Dr. Helen McGhie, Elizabeth Wewiora and Eda Emirdağ will come together for a conversation about the project's impact on art practice and social interaction on March 8 at 2 – 3.30 pm. In SAHA Studio, the trio will meet for a second time to talk about Belly Button on March 22.

Eda Emirdağ (1986, İstanbul) studied International Relations at St. Kliment Ohridski University in Sofia. In 2013, she won the Bahçeşehir University Photography-Video department with a full scholarship and Kadir Has University Institute of Art and Design with a full scholarship. She works on social issues such as women's and body politics and refugee issues as well as photography ethics, presentation aesthetics, image representation, archives. She researches and works in the fields of video, photography, collage and performance.

About Open Eye Gallery Liverpool

Open Eye Gallery is an independent, not-for-profit photography gallery in Liverpool and one of the UK's leading photography venues. It is the only gallery in the North West of England dedicated to photography and related media. The gallery believes that photography can be meaningful for everyone and can inform the present and inspire positive futures. Working with people, it explores photography's unique ability to connect, tell stories, question, reflect on humanity's past and present, and celebrate its diversity and creativity. Open Eye Gallery is leading the national development of the Socially Engaged Photography Network (SEPN). SEPN is an initiative that supports artists and communities to come together to produce work on important issues together.