![]() ![]() ![]() For Büyüktaşcıyan, “the abstraction of the capiz shells questions the ability to see or to remain virtually blind towards social and political aspects of everyday life and the cyclic repetition of history. The association of the two textures that have different uses but are intended to offer protection and apparent control over outside forces opens the interpretation towards the invisible aspects of our history and requires choosing a position – outside or inside. It also evokes the pattern of the binakol textile, which uses an optical illusion that resembles whirlwinds to drive away bad spirits. ![]() ![]() Seldom Seen, Soon Forgotten is a site-specific installation inspired by the capiz-shelled windows introduced in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial period which allow light to enter while still remaining resistant against typhoons. In 2018, during her residency at Bellas Artes Projects in Bataan in the Philippines, Büyüktaşcıyan started to look closer into the traditional local architecture. The transparent, delicate quality of the pillars, in the context of the dark, rustic building, represents the belief in spirits and gods that has long sustained the culture throughout its hardships.Hera Büyüktaşçıyan's research-based practice revolves around the fluidity of history and the relation between our present lives and our unseen roots these interests find differentiated expressions in two works presented at SB2019. The pillars-like forms are metaphors for a boundary as well as a passage between two opposite ideas-the tragic past of the abandoned historic sugar factory in which the piece is installed and the future of the site as a vibrant cultural park, suggested by sugar powder (the past) and the mirror (the future). In The Endless Line white thread is suspended from the ceiling to the floor, forming diaphanous pillar-like forms at the top of each is a mirror reflecting the mound of sugar at the bottom. 2017, Cotton thread, mirror sheet, foam board, museum board, glue, sugar powder, * Siao-long Artist Village ![]()
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