Landscape Documents, 2024
Merve Ünsal, in collaboration with Serra Şensoy and Doğa Yirik, Landscape Documents, 2024. Photographic collages, variable dimensions.
Merve Ünsal, in collaboration with Serra Şensoy and Doğa Yirik, Landscape Documents, 2024. Photographic collages, variable dimensions.
Installation view from Countering Time at Asia Art Archive, 2024. Photo by South Ho.
Installation view from Countering Time at Asia Art Archive, 2024. Photo by South Ho.
“Merve Ünsal presents a set of speculative field recordings from the site of a large-scale, centuries-old sinkhole located in Central Türkiye.
Landscape Documents brings together layers of photographs and drawings that explore ideas of scale, cracklings, glitches, and offers the body as a possible intermediary for comprehending the immeasurable. Ünsal considers the sinkhole as a site of multiple times, as sinkholes form after a sudden collapse of the earth’s surface caused by years of gradual changes in the landscape. She proposes that it remains impossible to fully record the years-long build-up, as well as the lasting impact of such events.”
—excerpted from the wall text of the exhibition Countering Time at Asia Art Archive (Hong Kong), 27.09.2024 – 1.3.2025.
All works are commissioned by Asia Art Archive.
