Operators from the Cambrian Onwards investigates daily relationships humans establish with time and temporality by looking at both human-made devices that manipulate time and duration and materials that manipulate and facilitate time in their encounters. Within the installation, time manipulators (coolers, vitamin C tablets, blow dryer, silica gel) and time facilitators (agar agar, vinegar, yeast) come together on reactive surfaces (copper, brass, glass) in collaboration with other actors (daylight, humidity, heat and all the other exchanges we cannot see). In doing so, they create new ephemeral processes, ranging from pigment production to humidity absorption, and become operators that obtain their power through their positioning and relationships within an assemblage.

"Mursaloğlu’s site-specific installation, Operators from the Cambrian Onwards, merges organic and synthetic materials, presenting a dynamic system that functions beyond the visual realm. The encounters Mursaloğlu initiates between materials, contextualized as “time manipulators” (cooler, hairdryer, silica gel, vitamin C tablets) and “time facilitators” (yeast, agar, vinegar) with “reactive surfaces and other actors” (copper, brass, glass, daylight, temperature, humidity, and all the other exchanges we cannot see), disrupt the flow of time. Mursaoğlu defines these encounters as "active operators", decontextualizing materials through their relational integrity, turning them into elements that operate in multiple temporalities. The production and exhibition period accumulates on the translucent, opaque, liquid, rippled and porous surfaces activated through haptic resonances."

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