Jamming  2022

“Jamming” uses similar motives and devices as those in some of the artist’s previous video works, “Session” (2013) and “Traces” (2015), in which instruments of both popular and classical music were animated and “played” by non-human agency – for instance by sand blown by the wind, movement of tree branches, falling water drops. Were these, ultimately, natural or manmade sounds? Nevin Aladağ’s work questions the borders and inquires the connections between chance processes and intentional actions, cultural codes and patterns of natural growth, vernacular aesthetics and industrial production, traditional knowledges and new urban lifestyles. Hers is a view on the world as a wonder that is constantly changing form, shifting, both expanding and shrinking, taking space and giving way, and slowly taking possession of all of us as we try and fail to keep it in check. (excerpt from a text by Adam Szymczyk)