Nevin Aladağ: Colour Floating

Luminous works of art float gently above the water, creating a silent harmony of coloured light in the semi-darkness. The objects are appropriated everyday items: designer lamps from the 1960s, covered with tights in different colours and textures.

Berlin-based sculptor and performance artist Nevin Aladağ – born into a Kurdish-Turkish-Iranian family in 1972 in Van, Turkey and raised in Stuttgart, Swabia – brings sensuality, fantasy and colour to the mining and textile industry town of Zwönitz with her permanent installation Color Floating. As well as conveying critique of social issues, her work celebrates unbridled joie de vivre.

Color Floating is reminiscent of summer festivals under lanterns, mystical processions, cheerful evenings in the intimacy of the flower garden and at the same time questions the clichés, attributions and crises of the places where Aladağ exhibits her works: is everyone invited to the party, regardless of the colour of their clothes, their identity or their skin?

Inspired by the Pattern and Decoration art movement, in Color Floating the internationally acclaimed artist has produced a vision of diversity, emotion and cultural transfer. Rather than admonishing those in power, Aladağ articulates her global political statement with captivating lightness and beauty.