A similar ambiguity emerges in Ali Şentürk’s Red Summaries series, where the focus shifts to the body. Rather than presenting the body as a complete, clearly bounded whole, the paintings approach it as a fragile structure in a constant state of transformation through touch. The hands surrounding the figure sometimes offer support, while at other times they become forces that conceal, constrain, or reshape it. The translucent red layers seek to bring into view an essence presumed to lie beneath the skin, blurring the boundaries between protection and exposure, intimacy and intervention. The body thus ceases to be an entity belonging solely to itself and becomes a relational space, fragmented, transformed, and reconstituted through contact with others.

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