Forest Research Platform

In her performative video works, Aslı Sungu observes everyday events between chaos and control and creates powerful moments of self-reflection through her calm visual language. In the process, she herself repeatedly appears as an actor and questions connections between private-intimate as well as social community relationships. Her most recent works increasingly show autobiographical references. Again and again, Sungu focuses on the intrinsic life of events and things as well as their inherent dynamics.

Not Sappho’s, Not Ottilie’s, Not Mine. A heavy, petrified garment dressed onto us and passed down from woman to woman through generations, one that does not belong to us, filled with moral rules and restrictions…almost stuck to us like a second skin, taking away and erasing feminity as well.

“One who cannot feel their own existence cannot feel pain”
Psychologist Mine Özgüzel.