Katlanmış Kenarlar/Enfolded Edges (work in progress for Istanbul 2026)
Within an urban context (in this case Istanbul, Turkey) this project understands edges as visual, aural, physical and cultural contextualised within the practices of the five project artists. Notions of familial ties and intergenerational, multicultural connections/re-connections sit at the core of the artistic dialogues within this project.
What is known, unknown, remembered and preserved are key conceptual commonalities which the artists explore, not in a linear sense but rather through a synchronic alignment across interests, materials, places & geographies. The fluid and hybrid conversations intersecting the visual and audio work, seek to explore how the edges of the visual, social and aural are understood as enfolded within the dynamic and expanding spaces of Istanbul. The continued pollination of urban traditions and use such as foraging, social gathering and local manufacturing are catalysts for the project Enfolded Edges/ Katlanmış Kenarlar. The artists seek to align these ideas and their work with species such as the edible matsutake mushroom (Sweden) and the blackberry (UK) which thrive in exploited urban spaces.
Kentsel bir bağlamda (bu durumda İstanbul, Türkiye) bu proje, kenarları görsel, işitsel, fiziksel ve kültürel olarak, beş proje sanatçısının pratikleri doğrultusunda anlamlandırır. Aile bağları ile kuşaklar arası, çok kültürlü bağlantılar/yeniden bağlantılar kavramları, bu projedeki sanatsal diyalogların merkezinde yer alır.
Bilinen, bilinmeyen, hatırlanan ve korunan unsurlar, sanatçıların keşfettiği temel kavramsal ortaklıkları oluşturur; bu keşifler doğrusal bir anlayışla değil, ilgi alanları, malzemeler, mekânlar ve coğrafyalar arasında senkron bir hizalanma ile gerçekleşir. Görsel ve işitsel çalışmaların kesiştiği akışkan ve hibrit diyaloglar, İstanbul’un dinamik ve genişleyen alanları içinde görsel, sosyal ve işitsel kenarların nasıl kavrandığını keşfetmeyi amaçlar. Şehirde tozlaşmaya sürdürülen gelenekler ve kullanım biçimleri, örneğin yabani ot toplama, sosyal toplanmalar ve yerel üretim gibi pratikler, “Katlanmış Kenarlar / Enfolded Edges” projesinin katalizörleri olarak hizmet eder.
Sanatçılar, bu fikirleri ve çalışmalarını, sömürülen kentsel alanlarda gelişen yenilebilir matsutake mantarı (İsveç) ve böğürtlen (Birleşik Krallık) gibi türlerle uyumlu hale getirmeye çalışıyorlar.
Toil & Trouble at Lincoln Arts Centre, Lincoln University
17 February – 6 March 2025
Tunnel Dream, 2025 (left) No Place, 2025 (right)
Tunnel Dream, 2025, Lincoln Arts Centre, Lincoln University
Digital photographic collage printed on brushed aluminium. 70 x 100cm
No Place, 2025, Lincoln Arts Centre, Lincoln University
Digital photographic collage printed on brushed aluminium. 70 x 100cm
Tunnel Dream, 2025 (left) No Place, 2025 (right)
Brutal Dream, 2024, The Broadway gallery Letchworth Garden City
Broadway Gallery, Letchworth Garden City 2024
A505 Flyover, 2024
Digital photographic collage printed on brushed aluminium. 70 x 100cm
Concrete Library, 2024
Digital photographic collage printed on brushed aluminium. 70 x 100cm
Sunset Flyover, 2024
Digital photographic collage printed on brushed aluminium. 70 x 100cm
Bowed Descent with Pan and Tilt, 2024
Bowed Descent with Pan and Tilt, 2024 (excerpt)
Video and sound 1920×1080 13.22 min (full duration)
Image/image processing by Anna Fairchild & Rob Flint with audio by Anna Fairchild (cello) and Rob Flint (electronic sound and sound processing) Jakub Rokita (amplification and recording)
Equinoks 2023 (audiovisual event, St Mary’s Church, Luton)
Brutal Foraging, Hat House, Luton, 2022
Brutal-Lab 2022 Departure Lounge Gallery Luton
21 January – 12 February 2022
Departure Lounge launched their 2022 programme with Anna Fairchild’s experimental installation Brutal-Lab.
Anna Fairchild’s points of departure for this work are the fragments of Brutalist inspired architecture she noticed and photographed while ‘walking-drifting’ through Luton in Autumn 2021. Anna’s interests include amongst others; Sundon Park water tower, the cast concrete facades of the Mall (the ‘Arndale Centre’) and the old ABC cinema.
Brutal-Lab was conceived as a changing, open-ended exploration and development of Fairchild’s photographic collage work Map Memories produced in Istanbul in the early 1990s, film and photographic pieces presented as part of Are We Human, at the 2016 Istanbul Design Biennial and her exhibition of sculpture and photograms in Congruous at Saturation Point, London, 2021.
Including a composition of Fairchild’s photographic research, Photograms and experimental architectural models, Brutal-Lab explored ways of working with digital and analogue photographic materials, photographic collage, writing and with direct cast sculptural processes.
Brutal-Lab was intended to inform an intuitive development of Fairchild’s current work, examining often-overlooked details and architectural forms in the urban spaces that surround us.
Congruous Elements Kit, 2021 Saturation Point Gallery London
