The exhibition RAW focuses on structures built around the world in the post-war period of the 20th century, when artists and architects sought to imagine a better future. Made primarily of raw concrete, these structures ranging from monuments and military bunkers to residential buildings emerged across a wide geography, including Yugoslavia, the United Kingdom and the United States, reflecting the ideologies of their time.

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For Eren, Brutalist architecture, which emerged in the aftermath of the Second World War, forms the starting point for a reconsideration of these structures through the transformation of form. Spanning from early 20th-century military architecture to the movement's peak in the 1970s, the exhibition explores the historical evolution of form and meaning.

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Working primarily with watercolor, Eren produces large scale, symmetrical and sculptural forms. Recognizing their affinity with Soviet modernist architecture and Brutalist aesthetics, he developed Abstract Structures, a project rooted in extensive research. His forms shift between sharply defined contours and blurred, ambiguous shapes, eventually dissolving into organic textures. Approaching Brutalism as a particular expression of modernism, Eren examines its artistic and historical legacy, establishing a dialogue between past and present.

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The Sound Mirrors along the English coast, a former Soviet crematorium and the Brutalist monuments of Yugoslavia are among the

references informing the works in RAW. Detached from their original contexts following the collapse of the regimes they once represented, these structures invite viewers to reconsider form in its purest state.