Silver Fine Arts and Art Installation Design · 2021
Moment Sculpture
- A' Design Award 2021 Silver Winner in Fine Arts and Art Installation Design
- Awarded April 15, 2021
- CLIENT: Usta Design
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About Moment Sculpture
Moment is a sculpture series that combines heirloom porcelain with blown borosilicate glass. The antique porcelain cups carry traces of history into the present, while the shaped glass represents a frozen moment. The glass is formed as if a liquid were splashing, so a brief instant is held still. Transparent and opaque colored glass was selected to suit the structure and concept of each cup. Every glass form is blown first and then joined to the porcelain piece. The intent is to preserve special moments within rapidly passing time.
Derya Geylani Vuruşan's Moment Sculpture belongs to a distinguished lineage of artistic investigations into the nature of time, transformation, and the poetry inherent in ordinary domestic rituals. The work engages with traditions of hyperrealist sculpture while extending into conceptual territory that questions the boundaries between photography, sculpture, and temporal documentation. Through the sophisticated technical achievement of casting translucent amber-toned resin in the exact configuration of a liquid splash, the artist transforms an event measured in milliseconds into an enduring sculptural presence that invites prolonged contemplation. The selection of a vintage porcelain teacup adorned with delicate botanical transfers grounds the work in traditions of domestic refinement and ceremonial pause, while the violent eruption of frozen liquid suggests disruption of expected tranquility. The chromatic dialogue between warm golden resin and cool white porcelain creates visual tension that mirrors the conceptual opposition between permanence and ephemerality, stillness and motion, the solid and the liquid. Technical accomplishment is evident in the preservation of optical qualities characteristic of suspended liquid including surface tension effects at droplet termini, varying translucency corresponding to material thickness, and the organic irregularity of splash trajectories that resist artificial symmetry. The work may reference vanitas traditions where domestic objects serve as meditation on temporal passage, or perhaps the artist invites consideration of how technology and artistic intervention might arrest moments typically lost to continuous time. Viewers might contemplate their own relationship to everyday rituals rendered invisible by familiarity, and whether the violence implicit in the splash reveals hidden drama within the most mundane actions.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- The heirloom porcelains that make up the work carry the traces of history to the present, while the sculpted glass represents a frozen moment and timelessness. The fact that the glass in antique cups is shaped like it is when a liquid splashes brings together a snapshot of the fluidity with the viewer. Colored glasses preferred as transparent and opaque were selected in accordance with the structure and concept of the cup.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Real size heirloom porcelains were preferred and the glass that best suits it was blown / shaped. Since the pieces are very sensitive, extra care has been taken in packaging. The mold is made using bubble stretch and rigid foam and the work is fixed to the mold.
- Tags
- Glass, Glass art, Contemporary Art, Conceptual Art, Porcelain, Glass sculpture
- Production Technology
- Relic porcelains and blown borosilicate glasses are the main materials of the "Moment Series". First of all, we started out by searching for the right non-glass object. Sketches were then made to connect the found relic with the glass. After the glass is shaped, it is combined with the heirloom object in the most aesthetic and physical way.
- Design Challenge
- The most challenging part of creating my "Moment Series" works is combining the right object with the glass and emphasizing the moment.
- Project Duration
- "Moment Series" was exhibited in many different galleries. Since October 2020, within the "Hunger Games" installation, the successful porcelain brand Porland has been included in the collection and some of it continues to be exhibited in Istanbul Akmerkez store.
- Operation Flow
- Many important companies attach importance to artist and brand collaborations. At this point, important collaborations and projects that make a difference can be realized for both artists and brands. While brands can take different orientations with the perspective of the artist while determining their strategies, artists can develop different presentation and marketing methods other than exhibiting their works in galleries.
- Research
- During the undergraduate education period, many conceptual and technical trainings were received in response to the question of how to use glass as an artistic expression. During the graduate education period, trends were better explored and determined. In this way, it has been learned more clearly how glass turns into liquid with heat and when combined with concepts, it turns into an artwork. The strong integrity of the contrasts and meanings that emerged when glass was used with different materials during doctorate education attracted attention. While researching the harmony arising from contrasts such as east-west, old-new, matte-bright, colored-colorless, the adventure of combining glass with materials other than glass has been continued. As a result of all this training and research, "Moment Series" has emerged.
- Inspiration
- Memories are the reflection of life. Being part of a memory makes the soul immortal. Looking back with longing, every moment that catches the eye touches a different feeling. Sometimes a scent, sometimes a light touch. For this reason, the idea was to perpetuate and immortalize the most special moments in the rapidly flowing time, and inspired by the unforgettable moments.
- Image Credits
- Derya Geylani Vurusan/ "Moment Series /Story of a long day", 2020
Derya Geylani Vurusan/ "Moment Series /White Night", 2020
Derya Geylani Vurusan/ "Moment Series /Late Day and Early Night", 2020