The exhibition LEFTOVER deals with the found objects of industrial archaeology, industrial ruins, the atmospheres of workshops, and the wastes that emerge during the production process. It explores the aesthetics and unthinkable possibilities of the material, as well as the losses that come with the ‘mistakes‘ of the disposable parts that break away from the raw material. These parts are intended to take the form of the object the material is transforming into, but cannot be transformed into a product due to production errors. The exhibition examines where the “leftover” goes, in which production cycles it is re-included, and how it creates its own economy and sociology. These themes are shaped around the ideas of invisible labor, disrupted time, and lost matter. 

Tunç uses the ground floor of the exhibition space as a machine room where the machine that produces waste operates. The video content includes fragments from processes such as taking the raw material, injecting it, and pouring it into the mold during the machine’s operation. This video work, which follows the coordinates of the machine in its placement, looks for connections with the human body in the vibrations, tremors, jolts, clamping, and opening of the machine parts it shows. The production waste that settles in the circulation area of the space and the rubber waste poured over the construction Tunç has built to create an experimental landscape in the main space are examples of the clunky materials she uses in her work. These materials question the normative contexts and functions that determine our daily lives. 

Exhibition photos: Emirkan Cörüt