Residents

Kerem Ozan Bayraktar & Aslı Uludağ

Ayvalık, January-February 2021

Aslı Uludağ, through practice-based research projects, explores techno-scientific, legal and architectural instruments that shape the relationship between humans, more-than-humans and the environment and investigates the forms of violence enacted through these processes. She utilizes performative and interactive installations, workshops and archives as tools to render this violence visible and intervene into its operations. Through these platforms, she proposes alternative modes of engagement between humans and the environment.

www.asliuludag.com

Kerem Ozan Bayraktar’s works pertain to conditions in which objects unite to constitute environments. Using a wide range of representation objects, the artist focuses on the fuzzy boundaries between natural and artificial entities; their metamorphosis, decaying, and how we make sense of them. These entities range from spontaneous urban plants to exoplanets; from machines to animal bodies. While on the one hand Bayraktar’s works demonstrate similar organisational modes of different environments, on the other hand they explore the conditions of singularity that contradict these similarities.

www.keremozanbayraktar.com