Where You They From : Elif Erkan

"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.

Where You They Form is a site-specific installation commissioned for THE PILL® in which speculations on origins, territoriality and the roman ticism 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.