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Installation (Archival inkjet print, inkjet print on polyester, sound, video)
2024
Wild grass grows is a temporal marking of memory, time, and the precarity of personal and global lives. The installation reflects on the nature of everyday objects, thoughts and feelings as mundane experiences anchoring time, particularly in the context of the global conditions shaping the world—migrations, political upheavals, and the search for love and belonging in shifting social landscapes. In this asynchronous narrative, a mind-map in perpetual motion, memories rearrange and get entangled over time, and the viewer is invited along to explore the tides between staying and leaving, the individual and the collective.
The installation hosts photographs, texts, video, still from a home video, and a sound recording from January 2013 (a year that would become an important landmark in Turkish political history) of a father and daughter discussing shifting public landscapes during a drive.
Documentation: Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry.
Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation, supported by SAHA.