SKYground invites audiences to consider both the ground of reality and the horizon of imagination, establishing a dialogue between contemporary artistic practices and the multilayered cultural heritage of Mardin. Moving between sky and earth, the individual and the collective, and the past and the future, the biennial traces a conceptual and spatial trajectory across the city and its surrounding landscape. Birds—figures that hold a particular place in the cultural memory of the region—serve as symbolic guides throughout the biennial. Carrying the winds unique to Mardin and the stories embedded in its stone architecture, they map invisible routes between exhibitions, site-specific installations, and public programs.