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Through my works, I examine the entangled networks of relations among beings who share and co-shape the world. I am drawn to the ways these relational ecologies unfold beyond human-centered perspectives, and to how they might be reframed through multispecies twists that unsettle inherited narrative habits. I am interested in revealing the animal strata within the human itself—those embodied, sensorial, and instinctive dimensions that dominant knowledge systems have historically suppressed. This shift enables a reconsideration of relationality in which the human is recast not as an exceptional category, but as one species among others, entangled within shared conditions of life. My practice orbits the porous edges between human and more-than-human worlds, exploring how bodies—organic, constructed, and imagined—interact across sensory, material, and epistemic thresholds. Such critical and imaginative approaches open space for expanded modes of sensing and co-existing, where boundaries loosen and reciprocal, plural forms of life can be envisioned.

My visual vocabulary draws on medical anatomy illustrations, encyclopedic imagery, rare and unusual depictions of flora and fauna—species that exist outside mainstream visual culture—and historical portrayals of bodies considered “abnormal” within dominant knowledge systems. These images—central to how colonialist rationality has shaped meaning and representation—offer a critical lens through which I question how bodies have been narrated, classified, and aestheticized.

My practice spans sculpture, installation, video, collage, painting, text, and performance. Across these mediums, I work with materials that underline tactility, corporeality, and aliveness—textiles, faux fur, natural fibers, and latex. As my videos and performances unfold through speculative narratives, they grow in tandem with the wearable sculptures, sculptural props, and scenographic elements I create as part of their world. My conceptual framework develops through a parallel process of material exploration and artistic research, each informing, challenging, and expanding the other. The inherent constraints of materials, along with their unexpected, gestural, or hybrid combinations, introduce layers of process that guide the work’s form and direction.

© 2035 by iris ergül

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