Landscape Documents, 2024
Merve Ünsal, in collaboration with Serra Şensoy and Doğa Yirik, Landscape Documents, 2024. Photographic collages, variable dimensions.
Installation views from Countering Time at Asia Art Archive, 2024. Photo by South Ho.
Installation view of Speaking Sinkhole (2026, background layer in black and white) and Landscape Documents (2024, top layer of images and transparencies) from Relevant is different points on the circle at İmalat-hane, 2026. Photo by Barış Özçetin.
Installation view from Relevant is different points on the circle at İmalat-hane, 2026. Photo by Barış Özçetin.
“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.
Landscape Documents was initially produced with the support of Asia Art Archive.
