Replicas

July 2023 - July 2024
MARDİN

Replicas has been designed as a project the subject of which is based on the venue, which produces with it and exhibits itself there.

The project begins with some questions. What do production of the space repetitively and such productions being achieved by means of different tools tell us about the state of the space? Can the space be a playground where we combine its past and present connections with its future ones?

Following the questions, the project splits into three phases: First phase; a detailed analysis of the space. This includes examination of its connection with location, time and living things. Through verbal historical studies and various research methods in order to understand the area, the project aims to address the effects caused by the space as a meta. The second phase is comprised by the production of Replicas, which includes various production techniques but mainly focuses on rendering different scales visible. Such production is designed as a whole which will be made up of different branches. Here, we can imagine the space as a playground, a machine which will be vitalized as a result of the actions taken on the playground. Here, the parts constituting the machine will be produced, elements of the metaphor will begin to develop. In the third and final phase of the project, all such productions which work together like a machine will be combined at the space where the project was initiated, in an installation specific to the venue.

While looking wholistic at first glance, a look at its details reveal that the work makes reference to productions made using different materials. The space is a research subject as is, then it becomes deeper and re-produced in various media, with its materials contributing to the production process. Subsequently, the space is together with those it has caused to be produced; and the effects of the installation, i.e. its replicas, have changed it.

Sidar Alışık

Sidar Alışık graduated from the Mardin Artuklu University Faculty of Architecture in 2020. He continues his education in the Istanbul Technical University Architectural Design graduate program. In 2018, he participated in the Venice Architecture Biennial Turkish Pavilion as a Shift Project participant. In 2019, he participated in the group exhibition ‘Photographs From Mardin, From Document to Design, From Workshop to Museum,’ organized by the Mardin Sakıp Sabancı Museum, with his “Erroneous Photographs” series of works. In 2021, he was accepted to the Piksel Yeni Medya guest artist program. His works were published in the 2021 spring, 2022 winter and 2022 spring issues of the 9Dokuz Dergi magazine, the design works of which has been carried out by the artist since the last 3 issues. In 2022, his installation named “Trace’’ was exhibited at the city square as part of the Womens Touch Mardin collective exhibition, and he participated in a group exhibition at A4 Workshop in Diyarbakır with his work named “Inaccessible Room.” In the same year, his production at the iskele.co video production workshop, named “Şahmeran,” was awarded the first prize. He feels himself productive in the interdisciplinary area and continues to be involved in active thought processes through the collectives which he is a member of. He also continues to create interdisciplinary works.

This page is published on 7 December 2023.