CRYPT RESIDENCY 2026: Özgül Arslan & Gözde Altun
August 20-1:00 pm - August 23-5:00 pm
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CRYPT RESIDENCY 2026
Özgül Arslan & Gözde Altun
Site-Specific: A State of Becoming
20-23 August 2026
Gallery open 1-5pm daily
During the residency at The Crypt Gallery, artist Özgül Arslan and curator Gözde Altun will work together to develop a site-specific project shaped by the space itself. Through ongoing dialogue, observation and experimentation, they will explore how the gallery’s architecture, light, airflow, surfaces and atmosphere can become part of the creative process.
Arslan will work with large scale paper and burnt wood dust, exploring the relationship between material, body, atmosphere and space. Through a performative process, the dust will settle, move and disperse across the paper in response to the artist’s movements and the changing conditions of the gallery.
The paper works will be installed as open, permeable forms that respond to air, movement and the presence of visitors. Rather than creating a fixed object, the project explores transformation, memory, traces and states of becoming.
The residency will form the starting point for Arslan and Altun’s continuing collaboration, informing the development of the project towards its final exhibition at The Crypt Gallery.