Nida Erdoğan was born in Istanbul in 1999. After completing her undergraduate education in the Painting Department of Namık Kemal University, she began her graduate studies at the Yıldız Technical University Institute of Art and Design. Erdoğan, who continues her artistic practice in Istanbul, produces works in various disciplines including painting, ceramics, sculpture, and site-specific installations. Focusing on themes of trauma, memory, and space in her practice, the artist aims to construct a universal narrative based on her personal experiences. Through the production language she develops through the relationship between material and form, she invites the viewer to an emotional and intellectual confrontation.
This installation bears the traces of a calm chaos. Each knot is not an unsolvable problem, but the fold of an existence that does not need to be solved. It is neither disordered, nor fully orderly. Each form emerges from a coiling silence; it winds around itself, coming into being without seeking a center.
The knot form, centered in the artist's production, no longer appears in this work as the scream of trauma; rather, it appears as the echo of that scream, spreading over time and permeating the body. These folds, resembling the body's internal architecture, are neither entirely inside nor outside. Inside and outside, remembering and forgetting, self and other, blend together here.
35 cm, Hand-shaped
Modelaj Kili / Modeling clay, 2024.
