Ece Yalçın’s solo exhibition Use Becoming No Use Becoming Use Again opens on Friday, March 27 at Benta. The exhibition unfolds from the interior of a personal car, continuing the artist’s engagement with everyday objects as tools of creative practice.

Central to the exhibition, Routine (2026) is an oil painting depicting a compact landscape seen from the car’s trunk through the ski hatch at its center — a negative space formed by the items carried to the studio. The painting connects the car’s practical function with everyday objects that circulate through the workspace.

In a straightforward and practical approach, materials that could be needed at any point in the creative process are brought together through the framework of the car. Neither fully in use nor completely inactive, these objects reflect the rhythm of everyday studio practice. In this way, attention shifts from the final outcome to the process that leads to it and the conditions that make it possible.

* Title adapted from a line in Frank O’Hara, “3 Airs,” in Lunch Poems (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1964), with the word air replaced by use.