Iskender Yediler: Ohne Titel (ESDA)

Out of a green field, sharply angled objects reminiscent of sawtooth roofs emerge like young shoots from a rhizome of roots. Along with a slender, brick chimney from the former Lichtenstein Krystallpalast (Crystal Palace) and later the Klubhaus 7. Oktober (Clubhouse 7th October), which once welcomed people here to dance, this arrangement is reminiscent of a cliché of industrial architecture. A sound collage emulates the clatter of stocking-knitting machines, harking back to the former VEB Feinstrumpfwerke ESDA (Stocking Works) and the people who worked there. But this is not a factory!

Berlin-based sculptor Iskender Yediler has placed a surrealist-inspired artwork in Lichtenstein/Saxony, blending local life, (hi)story and cliché. Born to Tatar parents in Eskişehir, Turkey in 1953, Yediler grew up in Munich, studying at the city’s Academy of Fine Arts and later doing her Masters in Düsseldorf under Ulrich Rückriem. The sculptor adopted his mentor’s approach of placing erratic fragments in public spaces as if they had dropped from the sky.

With Untitled (ESDA), which resembles a factory building sprouting from the ground and recalls the paintings of Giorgio de Chirico's Pittura Metafisica, Yediler is revitalising existing local networks. In Yediler’s work, people, machines and stones alike come into their own and sprout new shoots.