sinkmouthole, 2025
Merve Ünsal, in collaboration with Gizem Bengisu Erenler, sinkmouthole, 2025. Spatial body proposal, design, and modeling images. Digital prints, 50 x 50 cm.
Merve Ünsal, in collaboration with Gizem Bengisu Erenler, sinkmouthole, 2025. Spatial body proposal, design, and modeling images. Digital prints, 50 x 50 cm.
Merve Ünsal, in collaboration with Gizem Bengisu Erenler, sinkmouthole, 2025. Spatial body proposal, design, and modeling images. Digital prints, 50 x 50 cm.
“Artist Merve Ünsal revisits her previous creative interest in sinkholes, which, to her, serve as interfaces for environmental attunement and lead to a harmonic homeostasis. Ünsal pursues connections between this geographical concept’s sonic potential and İMÇ’s role in the history of Turkish music. Creating graphic notations that explore this process of attunement, Ünsal treats the sinkhole as an instrument that produces sounds within the confines of the gallery space in İMÇ, harkening to the similarities between the opening of a sinkhole and the opening of a human mouth to make sound. Ünsal’s work traces the close and performative connections between sound and the body, highlighting the organic foundations that bind us to our physical space.”—excerpted from Mehveş Leliç’s text for the exhibition Stray Eye 3 at Non-Sight, Istanbul, 2025.
