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Rozelin Akgün
Rozelin Akgün est une artiste et chercheuse basée à Diyarbakır (Amed). Formée à l’architecture paysagère, sa pratique associe les biomatériaux, les processus écologiques, la recherche scientifique et les systèmes de savoirs locaux. Dans son travail, elle explore la matérialité, l’agentivité de la matière et les temporalités entremêlées des corps, des environnements et de la vie non humaine. Ses installations, développées à travers une recherche soutenue et une expérimentation des matériaux, restent instables dans leur forme et émergent comme des systèmes dynamiques et fluides façonnés par la transformation, la décomposition et le renouveau. Travaillant avec des substances vivantes et éphémères, elle réfléchit à la perméabilité, à la fragilité et à la coexistence. Parmi ses expositions et projets récents, citons States of the Earth, Yapı Kredi Culture and Arts, Turquie (2024) ; Sediment, < rotor >, Autriche (2024) ; Upcycle Istanbul Art & Design Festival, Müze Gazhane, Turquie (2025) ; Triangle: A Dialogue, Rast Gallery, Turquie (2025) ; et SaDe, Lycée français Saint-Benoît, Turquie (2025).
Residency Project: What Remains in Matter
What Remains in Matter is a research-based project that continues my engagement with biomaterials, ecological processes, and more-than-human forms of life. During the residency, I would like to explore how organic materials may hold traces of care through their instability, permeability, and transformation. Rather than treating matter as passive substance, I am interested in its agency, its responsiveness to environmental conditions, and the temporalities it carries. I am also interested in allowing the research to be shaped by encounters with the local context, including its materials, ecological rhythms, and situated forms of knowledge. Through sustained research and material experimentation, I hope to follow forms and processes that remain open to change, decay, and renewal. The project is informed by both scientific inquiry and local knowledge systems, and reflects on care as something that may also take material and ecological forms. In this way, the research stays open to questions of fragility, interdependence, and coexistence through the shifting life of matter.
