Hera Büyüktaşciyan, Deconstructors Volume I (detail), 2017
Istanbul-based Hera Büyüktaşcıyan adopts a similarly expansive perspective of historical time. Looking closely at the architectural structures of cities that have experienced seismic changes in populations, Büyüktaşcıyan traces nearly forgotten tales through her sculptures, installations, videos, and drawings. The works build on the artist’s notion of “aquamorphology,” which, she explains, is “about the ‘fluid, aquatic nature of memory’ that ‘can simultaneously purify, divide, connect, heal, and destroy.’”