(*1986, TR)
Where You They Form, 2020
Concrete, natural rubber, cellular polystyrene covered with soil from Austria, Germany, Russia, Turkey and France

For Sculpture Garden, Elif Erkan has created an installation in which the notions of origin and territoriality, with their socio-political repercussions, are tackled in an array of sculptures, shaped as menhirs and covered with soil from different countries involved in the Geneva protocols. Menhirs are simple rock formations which are often considered as sculptures from the Stone Age. Archaeological excavations round them have not only aroused curiosity regarding their technique, but have also transformed their sites into tourist monuments and benchmarks of human and cultural progress. In the installation Where You They Form, through the shapes reminiscent of menhirs and the use of soil as covering material, Erkan explores narratives which assert that history is always a soil-based speculation.

With the support of SAHA