Yesterday’s Feelings (Site-specific installation)
Ok Linz Center For Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria
16 February - 26 May 2024

Installed inside a deconsecrated chapel, Yesterday’s Feelings (2023) takes the form of a monumental black trash bag, boldly inscribed with the words: “Yesterday’s Feelings.” First conceived as a smaller sculpture and now recreated on a dramatically larger scale, this iconic work becomes both a personal and spatial reflection on transformation.

Positioned in a space that once served religious devotion—now repurposed for contemporary art—Gülmen’s sculpture resonates with themes of transition, memory, and release. The act of discarding yesterday’s emotions is rendered tangible, humorous, and raw, confronting the viewer with the quiet weight of what we carry and what we choose to leave behind.

Gülmen draws a direct parallel between the chapel’s history and her own trajectory—from a conservative upbringing to the freedom of artistic self-expression. “I feel like the space itself,” she says. Yesterday’s Feelings thus becomes a site of emotional and existential recycling: a place where the remnants of the past take on new form and meaning.

Yesterday’s Feelings, 2023
Acrylic on polyester
250 x 260 x 180 cm