To be a place that has no center
Huset for Kunst og Design•Sep 14, 2024 — Jan 19, 2025
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HFKD is proud to present the first major institutional solo exhibition of Aia Sofia Coverley Turan.
In the exhibition To be a place that has no center, Turan starts from a Danish-Kurdish cultural history and her own origins in it. She makes use of classic materials such as bronze, plaster and copper and combines these with textiles, plastic and paper in a series of sculptures about the small ecstasies of everyday life. Through the materials and the sculptures, she creates stories of intimacy, grief and pride – what does the loss of a culture and the attempt to maintain it across national borders and over time entail?
Turan and HFKD have published a catalog for the exhibition. In an excerpt from the exhibition text written by artist colleague Anna Stahn, it says: “The clothes hang casually on the door after a long day, a dress stands up like a person; a child or a young woman. The living dresses that recur in several places in the exhibition are wet, dripping fabric...More
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To be a place that has no center
Huset for Kunst og Design•Sep 14, 2024 — Jan 19, 2025
Press Release
HFKD is proud to present the first major institutional solo exhibition of Aia Sofia Coverley Turan.
In the exhibition To be a place that has no center, Turan starts from a Danish-Kurdish cultural history and her own origins in it. She makes use of classic materials such as bronze, plaster and copper and combines these with textiles, plastic and paper in a series of sculptures about the small ecstasies of everyday life. Through the materials and the sculptures, she creates stories of intimacy, grief and pride – what does the loss of a culture and the attempt to maintain it across national borders and over time entail?
Turan and HFKD have published a catalog for the exhibition. In an excerpt from the exhibition text written by artist colleague Anna Stahn, it says: “The clothes hang casually on the door after a long day, a dress stands up like a person; a child or a young woman. The living dresses that recur in several places in the exhibition are wet, dripping fabric...More
