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Installation (book, box, wood, porcelain, photograph, stone, sponge, vellum, charcoal, tooth, candle, casette), size variable
2018
Invisible Labour explores collecting without sorting, listing, and anti-archiving as methodologies for embracing loss and change as part of life. The installation reconsiders the words "border" and "boundary"—synonymous in some languages–where language itself turns into a site of passage and encounter. Piling-scattering-stacking, the work looks at how memories are constructed and preserved as a method for analyzing intimacy. Resisting a fixed narrative through fragments, non-linear associations, and through an openness to being shaped by others, the installation dissects the permeable and relational intimacy that emerges through entanglement rather than authorship.
Images from: An absent door, always open, 2018, poşe.
Interview with Didem Erbas, İstanbul Art News, 2018.