Tuvaldan toprağa/ From Canvas to Earth, Bodrum Castle

For this exhibition Maria Sezer has made structures that resemble parts of buildings. These structures might have been used for the living or the dead. The structures are made of familiar-looking clay bricks and look as if, because of age, are partly sinking into the ground and, like that, becoming part of the material they were originally made of again . On the walls of the stuctures one can see imprints resembling fossiles of organic materials like seedpods, branches pineneedles and flowers. The imprints make up outlines of parts of human bodies that are passively floating through the walls as if decomposing into the clay. Here we find clay, traces of plant-and human life fused into one, like the blueprint for life. Made visible is the memory of the past and the promise of future life in clay, the flux of the state materials get in through time. At one time clay, another time plant, another time again human form, here all are pressed into one.