Spirits On The Ground Yer Ruhları
Site-specific installation functioning as a living cemetery, composed of mechanical toys, garbage bags, LED lights, videos, batteries, nylons, dead plants, water, soil, and rust. The work traces geochemical origins of objects, exploring consciousness and vitality through dispersed natural accumulations.
Mekanik oyuncaklar, çöp torbaları, LED ışıklar, videolar, piller, naylonlar, ölü bitkiler, su, toprak ve pastan oluşan, yaşayan bir mezarlık olarak işlev gören mekâna özgü yerleştirme. Çalışma, nesnelerin jeokimyasal kökenlerini izler; dağılmış doğal birikimler aracılığıyla bilinç ve canlılığı araştırır.
The materials (petroleum-based plastics forming toys and nylon coverings, plus batteries containing life-essential elements like carbon, zinc, and potassium) trace geochemical origins of life itself.
The installation comprises disassembled toys with rusted batteries, cell-garbage bags collecting them, plastic forming both environment and object, water-activated toy dinosaur eggs, videos of koi swimming on nylon, paint-releasing plastic fruits in water, and remnants of failed or nonexistent ecosystems.
Islet-like agglomerations and production stages resemble underground workshops, shooting studios, dysfunctional greenhouses, or warehouses. Images and their generating machines existing in hybrid atmospheres without foreground or background.
These atmospheres comprise not merely gases but everything containing them. Plastic compresses into toys or stretches into nylon curtains; scent permeates air, filling visitors’ lungs. Events compress into objects; objects expand into events. Formless occurrences lacking intentionality.