SIBEL KOSCHINSKI
sammelsurium n.

During her time at Echoes Residency in Greece, Sibel rooted her practice in the interaction of material and myth. Gathering clay from Mount Olympus, she places the weight of the earth in tension with the weight of the immaterial - of memory, absence, and time. Crafting the clay from liquid to solid, her process uncovers suspensions between fluidity and form, temporality and permanence.

As she shapes the vessels, Sibel encounters their memories - traces of what no longer exists. As the immaterial presses upon the material, a paradox emerges: what is weightless leaves the heaviest imprint.

Calling upon the myth of Echo, Sibel slips into the nymph’s sentence: to be present only through absence and to repeat, repeat, repeat. Surrendering to the rhythm of creation, each vessel emerges in response to the recollection of the previous. The times of memory, of touch, and of possibilities coincide and confound; past, present, and future, untethered, uncontained, as repetition reveals its singularity through re-iteration.