Dress Code: Light, Die Akt Gallerie, Berlin, Germany
Burak Bulut Yıldırım
What if light were your only clothing?
In Dress Code: Light, Yıldırım wraps the body not in fabric, but in shadows and glow. This Berlin exhibition shows 31 photographs where skin becomes sculpture, and light—soft or sharp—becomes both veil and voice.
Raised in Turkey, shaped by both tradition and rebellion, Yıldırım brings a rare tenderness to the nude. His camera doesn’t just see—it listens.
There are echoes here: of Weston’s clean lines, Cunningham’s sensitivity, Man Ray’s surreal games, Clergue’s poetry, Rodin’s weight and grace. But Yıldırım speaks his own language—one of silence, flesh, and fire.
No retouching. No filters. Just pure light, caught in-camera.
Each image invites you to look closer—to ask:
Where does the body end and the light begin?
Dress Code: Light isn’t just an exhibition. It’s a question, whispered through skin:
If light dressed you, what truths would it show?
— Mery Emaydın, Curator
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