The exhibition featuring Attila Durak’s photography project ‘Ebru: Reflections on Cultural Diversity’, documenting cultural diversity in Turkey, was on show at Diyarbakır Arts Center September 29-October 21, 2007. Attila Durak traveled hundreds of cities, towns and villages in Marmara, Eastern Anatolia, Southeast Anatolia, Black Sea, Central Anatolia, Mediterranean and Aegean regions and photographed 44 ethnic groups for this project. The reference point of the works in the exhibition, which emerged from the artist’s seven-year journey filled with curiosity, passion, and struggle, was the art of marbling. The connotations of fluidity, flexibility, transitivity, and variability in the essence of the art of marbling, which reflects life on the surface of the water and transfers it from there to paper, were the main inspiration for the language Atilla Durak sought to represent the cultural diversity in Turkey. Within the scope of the exhibition, a talk titled ‘Ebruli Conversations’ was held on October 6, 2007, with the participation of Atilla Durak, Fethiye Çetin, Nebahat Akkoç, Ayşe Gül Altınay and Şeyhmus Diken as speakers. Mehmed Uzun was among the guest speakers but could not attend due to health problems.
