Artist Statement

Aylin Derya Stahl is a Berlin-based artist working across photography, installation, moving image, sound, and text.

Her work examines how the environment inscribes itself into matter through processes of decay, fragmentation and transformation. She is particularly interested in how objects deform and deteriorate, and how their shifting states resist fixed interpretation or categorization.  Engaging with the latent language of material change, she investigates how the mutability of things can generate new vantage points, making visible the in-between states that emerge in the process. Stahl often begins with acts of collecting, classifying and arranging. These gestures form the basis for critical studies or fictional constellations in which materials function both as carriers of memory and as unstable records of their environment. Drawing from material studies, phenomenology and different concepts of time, she approaches transmutation as a mode of attention that reveals temporal, spatial and sensorial entanglements within material form.