Manifesta purposely strives to keep its distance from what are often seen as the dominant centres of artistic production, instead seeking fresh and fertile terrain for the mapping of a new cultural topography.
Yıldız Tüzün, TR
Untitled, 1993. Metal, used coffee filters partially dyed with textile paint 46 × 39 × 17 cm.
Yıldız Tüzün's working method is often based on inconspicuous materials from everyday life, which she collects, processes and transfers into new formal and intellectual contexts.
Tüzün's works revolve around transitions: between art and use, geometry and organic structure, past and present, origin and new context. Her art sees itself as a place of dialogue where difference is not abolished, but brought into a fragile, productive balance.
Particularly characteristic is her handling of used coffee filters, which she treats with wax, paraffin or stearin, for example, and integrates into polished metal moulds or spatial installations. She is not only interested in the external form of a material, but also in its social history, its traces of use, and its position within everyday value systems. From seemingly poor, discarded things, abstract, precisely placed objects of great presence emerge.