2019-2021. Materials include potato-based bioplastic, thread, steel, heating plates, and water.
Installation shots from Once Upon a Time Inconceivable, a Protocinema exhibition at Beykoz Kundura, Istanbul, Turkey, September 2021.
Commissioned by Protocinema.
Video documentation by Ilgar Gökhan and Oytun Yönyüksel.
Photos by Zeynep Fırat.
"Gülşah Mursaloğlu’s Merging Fields, Splitting Ends (2021) sets up another system made up of kindred materials from under the surface of the earth: metal, potato, and water. These elements are activated by heat and time to create a twofold increase in entropy. The vapor from water heated inside enameled vessels is directed towards potato plastic –a new generation technology that relies on the perishability of the potato rather than its storied durability. Temperature, like time, not only creates an irreversible entropic reaction within the system but also overflows from the works into the Beykoz Kundura Factory space and seeks our attention as much through what is immediately visible within the space as through our sensibility to the micro-climate it creates."
Lara Fresko Madra (excerpt from her essay titled Multitemporal Sensations in ProtoZine).
2019-2021. Materials include potato-based bioplastic, thread, steel, heating plates, and water.
Installation shots from Once Upon a Time Inconceivable, a Protocinema exhibition at Beykoz Kundura, Istanbul, Turkey, September 2021.
Commissioned by Protocinema.
Video documentation by Ilgar Gökhan, Oytun Yönyüksel.
Photos by Zeynep Fırat.
"Gülşah Mursaloğlu’s Merging Fields, Splitting Ends (2021) sets up another system made up of kindred materials from under the surface of the earth: metal, potato, and water. These elements are activated by heat and time to create a twofold increase in entropy. The vapor from water heated inside enameled vessels is directed towards potato plastic –a new generation technology that relies on the perishability of the potato rather than its storied durability. Temperature, like time, not only creates an irreversible entropic reaction within the system but also overflows from the works into the Beykoz Kundura Factory space and seeks our attention as much through what is immediately visible within the space as through our sensibility to the micro-climate it creates."
Lara Fresko Madra (excerpt from her essay titled Multitemporal Sensations in ProtoZine).