Sevgi Safer's "Reconcile" is an exploration into her identity. As a Turkish Cypriot born in Britain she is interested in the tensions, difficulties, contradictions, and often confusing meanings about home, return and self. Like so many other artists of her generation, her exploration is decisive, moving and honest. Her work speaks of the plurality of her identity, of the rifts, splits and "cultural difference" that so many second-generation migrants in Britain's urban, suburban metropolis face.
In many ways "Reconcile" as a title suggests an integration and closure of opposing positions - to harmonise, attain and realise an equilibrium, an order - but "Reconcile" here could also perhaps and more importantly suggest a recognition and reconciliation of the very differences that she is exploring.
Safer's work offers a keen insight into the different methodologies available to the artist - she starts out as an observer in an ethnographic mapping of culture and memory, and ends placing herself firmly, precisely in the centre of the "text" itself.

John Nassari, London 2002.