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RUINS







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Ruins is an ongoing exploration of how perception shifts through time, ambiguity, and processes of (de/re)construction.
Emerging from small clay forms that I lived alongside, the work moves through cycles of making, breaking, covering, tearing, and reconstructing. 
I am interested in forms that remain on the horizon of becoming — never fully fixed or completed — like ruins that continue transforming while carrying traces of
what came before
and
gives openings to the future.

I made things with clay, things that were small and weird..
things that I could not  identify at the beginning.
but they kept staying on my desk, on the kitchen table.
I holded them while talking on the phone. I took photos of them, I made drawings, paintings from these photos.
then, they were not weird for me anymore.
It was like an endless process that I was making something, then breaking, spoiling it, then constructing something else with remainders, then deconstructing again and again.

                                                        

Seyler / Things, 2023 - Detail

 21 x 29.7 cm
 Acrylic on Paper

                                                                                                
                                                                         

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Some of the works were made during an artist residency  at  Torna Houses ~ Torna Evleri, while the renovation of the house was still ongoing. The unfinished structure of the building — openings, unbuilt windows, covered openings — led me to think about the relationship between the body / the self  and the house.
The questions that emerged there later became the starting point for my ongoing research on home, memory and loss :   what does it mean to live in a house that will never be finished ?