2021-22. Materials include potato-based bioplastic, thread, copper, clay, and USB heaters.
Installation shots from Hosting Bodies curated by Ulya Soley at Sanatorium, Istanbul, Turkey, December 2021.
Photos by Zeynep Fırat.
"Gülşah Mursaloğlu’s installation is a continuation of the artist’s previous work featuring her experimentations with materials of the underground. Mursaloğlu produces potato-based bioplastic and she stitches square-shaped plastic pieces together to form long lines. These lines of plastic bodies hang from the ceiling and stretch out to the floor. This half-transparent material slowly dissolves then, being cracked by water boiling in copper and ceramic containers heated by USB heaters tailored for individual beverage consumption. There is a constant transformation of energy and the process of becoming is made visible each time this cycle re-begins. Mursaloğlu’s work will evolve over the duration of the exhibition: It will transform the exhibition as the work itself changes. The installation continues into the gallery’s window as an intervention, underlining the visibility of the transformative agent of heat by filling the window with steam."
Ulya Soley
2021. Materials include potato-based bioplastic, thread, copper, clay, and USB heaters.
Installation shots from Hosting Bodies curated by Ulya Soley at Sanatorium, Istanbul, Turkey, December 2021.
Photos by Zeynep Fırat.
"Gülşah Mursaloğlu’s installation is a continuation of the artist’s previous work featuring her experimentations with materials of the underground. Mursaloğlu produces potato-based bioplastic and she stitches square-shaped plastic pieces together to form long lines. These lines of plastic bodies hang from the ceiling and stretch out to the floor. This half-transparent material slowly dissolves then, being cracked by water boiling in copper and ceramic containers heated by USB heaters tailored for individual beverage consumption. There is a constant transformation of energy and the process of becoming is made visible each time this cycle re-begins. Mursaloğlu’s work will evolve over the duration of the exhibition: It will transform the exhibition as the work itself changes. The installation continues into the gallery’s window as an intervention, underlining the visibility of the transformative agent of heat by filling the window with steam."
Ulya Soley