Nevin Aladağ | Body Instruments
WENTRUP is pleased to present Nevin Aladağ’s fifth solo show at the gallery. An unexpected appearance of sound is characteristic of Nevin Aladağ’s works. In the current exhibition, everyday situations are put to the test for their sonorous potential.
Since she participated in documenta 14 with the Music Room Athens and more recently with her Resonating Sculptures, Aladağ has repeatedly attracted attention with groups of works that reinterpret mostly silent objects as musical instruments. This often happens with the collaboration of professional instrument makers. Thus, the mid-century table could actually become a playable santouri in the Music Room series, or as in Resonating Wind, the artist combines several instruments into a utopian, but still playable object so that different wind instruments combine in a spherical space. Based on these series, new objects can now be seen in her solo exhibition at Wentrup, which reveals two new directions within her oeuvre. Aladağ now tests the potential of the exhibition space as a sounding body by means of an instrument, activating it and making it sound as one entity.
