Nida Erdoğan was born in Istanbul in 1999.

After graduating from the Painting Department at Namık Kemal University, she began her graduate studies at Yıldız Technical University's Institute of Art and Design. Working in painting, ceramics, sculpture, and site-specific installations, the artist constructs a universal narrative based on her personal experiences in her works centered on the concepts of trauma, memory, and the uncanny. Her childhood phobia of birds became apparent through the images of dead birds in her early works. While these images initially formed part of a personal confrontation, they eventually opened the door to an inquiry into collective memory. In recent years, she has turned to the knot form as a narrative language. Knots appear in the artist's works as metaphors for unresolved, repressed, or postponed emotions. Erdoğan aims to make visible the traces left by trauma in memory through visual language and to transform personal experience into a universal inquiry.

This installation treats the knot form no longer as a problem to be solved, but as an entity reshaping itself. These forms, born of trauma, no longer need to be solved; They are structures that arise from within, twisting around their own axis.

Ceramics function here not merely as a material but as a psychic threshold. Knots fashioned from white clay record the layers of the body and memory. Each form, simultaneously open to the inside and outside, points not to a fixed identity but to transformation. These amorphous structures oscillate on the boundary between individual memory and collective consciousness. As in the phrase "You, not as you": neither fully included nor fully excluded. These knots, with their ambiguous boundaries, remind us that existence stands on a perpetual threshold.

State of Being, Ceramic Installation, 48 pieces, 2025