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.
