This book accompanies Ahmet Doğu İpek's solo exhibition held at Arter between May 2022 and January 2023.

'A Halo of Blackness Upon Our Heads brings together works Ahmet Doğu İpek has produced with various mediums between 2020–2022 in the context of this exhibition. Stemming from natural phenomena such as sandstorms, volcanic eruptions, landslides and sun eclipses; the paintings, drawings, installations and video works gathered here interpret by way of abstraction awe-inspiring events that excede human scale and are endowed with the capacity to dazzle or appall us.

These works, which build a space for mutual interaction between matter and emotions, fiction and reality, the natural and the artificial, the tangible and the transient, invite us to step in a field that allows for perception and witnessing, where various scales collide. A Halo of Blackness Upon Our Heads bonds with phenomena that not only stem from the absence of light but also continually produce darkness. In doing so, the works on display disclose that which is invisible to our naked eyes / that which our hands cannot grasp – the sky, the sun, darknesses, subterranean forces and activities, tectonic movements, buried memories, past and gone lives, not-yet-born events, the infinitesimal, the immensely big, the far-off or the too-near.' - extracted from the exhibition's website