On being water: A group show at Istanbul apartment gallery

Matt Hanson wrote an article about Fluid Dynamic Exhibition, you can find full article here.

“The installation has a curious relation to that of Istanbul-born, Berlin-based architect Yelta Köm, whose video installation “Possibilistic Grounds” (2021) further investigates the mineral connection to fluidity. Köm has honed his sights on lead. A suspended, flat monitor hangs above a topographic mound of black granules covered meticulously with the contours of a model highland landscape.

“Possibilistic Grounds” moves from waterfalls to mountains to show how the seemingly immoveable heights of towering crimps in tectonic plates are suffused with liquidity and retain elements of its coursing. From within, by heating the ore of its stone, the mountain has literally fluid energy. In the word liquify, assets become debts in a way similar to capitalist industry, where a mountain may boil down to a sum of currency.”