Solid Feather

Matter is not a passive substance but a system that thinks, remembers, and transforms through its own processes of formation, dissolution, and reconfiguration. To take form, to give form, and to lose form are ways in which it constructs a temporal mode of memory. Everything, stone, salt, water, sound, and body, exists through its own energy and capacity to act; agency is not singular but distributed across these relations.

 
In ancient Greek mythology, Sirens were often depicted as half-woman, half-bird creatures living on rocky islands by the sea. With their remarkable voices, they song to pirates from the sea; ships drifting, crashing against the rocks, and breaking apart. Over time, this myth came to mirror a fear of women’s voices and power. Formed through the slow interaction of sea, sound and rock at Siren Rocks, Foca Izmir, Solid Feather reveals the temporal traces of matter; its constant negotiation between stability and change, and explores the evolving relationship between matter and body.