Tun, 2022. Second hand leather jacket. 41x58x23 cm.
Tun, 2022. Second hand leather jacket. 41x58x23 cm.
Çavuşoğlu’s own location in the Eastern Mediterranean has directed her to the pinus brutia tree, witness to rapid environmental changes, the movement of peoples, and…
The transmutation of specific, regionally sourced materials and their deployment as connotative visual form is equally resonant in the case of Lambadistrion. Here, beads made…
Traces and trajectories of migration are equally central to Çavuşoğlu’s research in the Sonoran Desert, an active passage for people between Mexico and the United…
TINA, in which leather, bark-paper and drawing come together in the form of an accordion book, is informed by documented instances of natural mummification in…
In a series of newly produced works, Çavuşoğlu continues her longstanding exploration of material histories, properties and states. She begins with the bursera fagaroides, a…
In Codex, Çavuşoğlu worked with the bark of the Bursera fagaroides, a tree with a shrinking habitat (owing to climate change) that is native to…
In the work, Holy Stick, Çavuşoğlu re-works a slogan from a different historical moment and position on the political spectrum – Greta Thunberg’s “Our house…
TunState presents a potent metaphor and a playful provocation, asking us to consider the diverse ways in which creatures, human and non-human, respond to existential…
Aslı Çavuşoğlu’s work “Deep Drown Discharge” (DDD) was inspired by marine mucilage, a collection of organisms that arrived in and occupied the surface and depths…