The Shaped by Water series is a sculptural series made out of plastic foam fragments that the artist, who lives in Burgazada, found on the coasts of the Marmara Sea. Styrofoam and other foamed plastics are featured in these sculptures without the artist’s intervention, as they are formed by the sea, waves, rocks, and animals. In addition to materials from the sea, junk refrigerators are used in the new sculptures titled Stalactites and Stalagmites (2024) and Depositions and Cave Formations (2024), commissioned for this exhibition.

Refrigerator skeletons, which the artist came across at a former quarry –now a junkyard– in Kınalıada, hint at the source of the ubiquitous, seabound fragments of polyurethane foam. These fridges keep most of their original volume even after all their recyclable components have been removed. It can be said that with the accumulation of these works, the artist is articulating an urban map which provides an engagement with the concept of consumption.

Didem Yazıcı and Burcu Çimen (from the “States of Earth” exhibition text)

Sibel Horada, Fungal Gatherings, Installation Views at Yapı Kredi Cultural Center, 2024

2024

States of Earth

Curators: Didem Yazıcı and Burcu Çimen

Yapı Kredi Cultural Center, Istanbul

2024 (ENG / TR)

States of Earth exhibition catalogue