WHERE THINGS LINGER
An old wooden chair, its seat made of cracked mirror, turned in on itself. A small spotlight extends from the back of the chair, illuminating the seat, and light reflecting off the broken mirror fragments spreads across the walls of the room. A hidden motor beneath the upholstery gently stirs the cracked mirror surface, like breath beneath a blanket.
This almost imperceptible movement causes the reflections on the walls to shift in a choreographed manner, constantly reshaping the volume of the room. When approached closely enough, the moving mirror fragments emit a sound reminiscent of cracking ice.
The chair, an everyday object in the house, transforms into a space where things breathe in a suspended moment of time within this kinetic light installation.
SALTY RIVER
The Salty River, that is, the Bosphorus Strait. The largest river in Istanbul, where the salty Mediterranean Sea flows at the bottom and the sweeter Black Sea flows at the surface, in opposite directions.
This sound installation consists of metal buckets standing upside down on thin legs and two mechanisms between the legs that constantly disrupt each other's order, thus avoiding repetition. One produces a deep, long-lasting sound from the bottom using rotating magnets; the other resonates within the metal buckets with sounds emanating from a ball bouncing between wires.
The strait is a place of both the past hidden beneath the water and the dark layers of memory. With its endless, lingering sound, Salty River echoes the blurred sound of navigating these layers; of trying to remember something, of trying to recall but never quite catching it, of an endless search.
This time, Salty River will be exhibited in Amsterdam at **Brakke Grond, in the square where fresh and salt water meet.
IN BETWEEN - 2
This kinetic installation features several coffee cups that appear to have been left behind on small table. Each cup contains a spoon that begins to move gently when someone walks by, triggered by motion sensors. The piece plays with notions of presence and absence, quiet and motion, suggesting traces of daily life or memory. The clinking of the spoons creates a soft, fragile soundscape that interacts lightly with its surroundings.
ALBUM
An old drawer sits on top of found table legs. Inside are objects unrelated to one another; things that once belonged to something but now belong nowhere. Those small items you couldn't categorise or discard when tidying the house, the things you eventually put in that drawer — the catch-all box.
A simple mechanism in the drawer's secret compartment slowly moves the objects. As the objects approach each other, collide or move apart, a new arrangement, a new meaning emerges each time. Sometimes blocking each other's path, sometimes rescuing each other from the corners they are stuck in, these objects are also open to the viewer's intervention; their places can be changed, relationships can be re-established.
The drawer is both a personal album of objects accumulated over different periods and a space for shared memory through ordinary things. Objects can be taken out of the drawer or new ones added. The sounds created by the friction of the objects and the vibrations on the surface keep this small universe in constant motion.
