With Sail to Hope, Esra Kizir Gokcen presents her response to the far-reaching effects of globalisation.

Born from human empathy rather than politically driven, her work questions the hierarchies that place

humans above other life forms.

In paintings inspired by Eastern miniature art, natural forces intermingle with crowds of abstracted shapes and

figures to represent movements of people and cultures, between past and present. Collaged paper boats folded from

world maps symbolise the shared humanity of precarious passages too often reduced to numbers in news headlines.