The Garden of (not) Forgetting: Last Year’s Herbarium, 2021, Photo: Cemil Batur Gökçeer. Copyright: Unutma Bahçesi Projesi
The Garden of (not) Forgetting: The Pool, 2021, Photo: Cemil Batur Gökçeer. Copyright: Unutma Bahçesi Projesi
The installation in the context of reading performance: Kurbet, 2022. Photo and Copyright: Dilşad Aladağ
Name
Dilşad Aladağ
Biography
Dilşad Aladağ is a trained architect and contributes to the artistic and cultural field in creative and critical forms. Aladağ holds an M.Sc. in European Urban Studies from Bauhaus University Weimar as a DAAD scholarship holder. In her practice, she explores landscapes and narratives in various forms across disciplines, from architecture to art and to social and natural sciences. Currently, her work focuses on the possibilities of resilience that cultural and artistic practices can create in the face of social and environmental crises.
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Artist Statement
"My work is influenced by the complex manifestations of change in the urban and rural landscapes and its reflections in collective memory, as well as in the multiple contradictions that arise from them. This brings my works close to the discourses around modernity, technology, and environmental history while it encourages me to work on the paradoxes of inheritance, archiving and preserving practices, especially in the field of botany.
My background in architecture and urban studies inspires me to assemble poetic and experiential paths to explore topics that interest me. My process may consist of field visits, archival research, gathering, initiating dialogues and collaborations, and making, mapping and writing. The outcomes of these processes can be defined as open-ended assemblages that can take various forms, from video essays and publications to site-specific installations and lecture performances. This also shapes my academic works that focus on exploring the possibilities of resilience and collectivity that artistic and curatorial practices can initiate in the face of emerging crises".
www.dilsadaladag.com/
My background in architecture and urban studies inspires me to assemble poetic and experiential paths to explore topics that interest me. My process may consist of field visits, archival research, gathering, initiating dialogues and collaborations, and making, mapping and writing. The outcomes of these processes can be defined as open-ended assemblages that can take various forms, from video essays and publications to site-specific installations and lecture performances. This also shapes my academic works that focus on exploring the possibilities of resilience and collectivity that artistic and curatorial practices can initiate in the face of emerging crises".
www.dilsadaladag.com/