Eda Aslan's text Notes on Blue and Grey deals with the color grey in its presence in urban space and as a metaphor for society and history. Aslan describes the multi-layered covering of walls and building surfaces with grey paint, an act that lies somewhere between erasure and repair. This raises the question of how the vast dark void of history can be confronted without first brushing off its dust.
The performative walk to Eda Aslan's exhibition An Island to Another Island; a Poem to Another Poem at was accompanied by a reading of the artist's text Notes on Grey and Blue. This took place as part of the performative activation of the Monument against Fascism in Hamburg-Harburg, as an event in the Counter-Monuments series.
Eda Aslan
Notes on Grey and Blue
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Biography
Eda Aslan (b. 1993, Istanbul) artist and researcher based in Hamburg. She studied sculpture Marmara University Fine Arts Faculty and received her MA from the painting department in the same institution. She is currently continuing her MA studies at Time Based Media Program of Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg — HFBK Hamburg with a DAAD scholarship. Her works focuses on lost spaces, narratives, archives, and testimonies that were left out of historiography, forgotten or unrecorded at the intersection of personal and collective memory.