Aşkın Ercan

Istanbul, January 2025

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Aşkın Ercan

Istanbul, January 2025

Aşkın Ercan is an artist and academic. Her work explores the effects of urban life, memory, and daily practices on cultural dynamics. In recent years, she has brought the memory of water into focus on spatial and urban scales, incorporating ecological narratives derived from oral history, local wisdom, everyday life practices, and myths into this discourse. This approach often involves and fosters collaborations in her water-related research. Visual, auditory, and interactive projects—such as video, sound, and game-performance workshops—are central to her artistic practice.

In her residency process at Gate 27, she will deepen her research on exploring the cultural, ecological and social meanings of water.