Elif Erkan Where You They Form

"All my endeavors are honest
Even in recollection of the past
And looking into the future I see dust
You will see all my past mistakes here
Don’t worry, I won’t be lecturing you
I don’t want to warn you
As you, I was once dust
And you ate food, trusted the stars your feet buried in soil
Just like me
And now here we are
Reading the fragments of our glorious battles reminiscing past times
Now you start thinking back and you start to wish for a future
And yet again there is dust
We have spent so much time thinking about standards
Speculating, thinking of future providences… but you tell me: Will all these layers of quantifying
a standard help us be remembered? Bet better than past generations?
I am 34, female
I have no children." - E.E

The gallery is pleased to announce Elif Erkan's first solo show in Turkey. Where You They Form is a site-specific installation commissioned for T H E P I L L ® in which speculations on origins, territoriality and the romanticism of progress are approached in menhir-like sculptures that usher the viewer through the gallery. Fragments of the artist's body casted in tin lay embedded on the ground. The artists body turned into a support reflects on the existing relationship between the artist's body and the sculptural productions itself. Furthermore, the body is treated like an archeological relict which enables to turn the exhibition into a burial site.