Nevin Aladağ: Colour Floating

Luminous works of art float gently above a water surface and create a quiet poetry of colored light in the twilight. The objects are misappropriations of everyday objects: Design lamps from the 1960s, covered with differently colored and differently textured tights.

Berlin-based sculptor and performance artist Nevin Aladağ - born in 1972 in Van/Turkey into a Kurdish-Turkish-Iranian family and raised in Stuttgart, Swabia - intervenes with sensuality, fantasy and color with her permanent installation Color Floating in the mining and textile industry town of Zwönitz. Her work celebrates the immediate joy of life just as much as it conveys socio-critical content.

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 work: Is everyone invited to the party here, regardless of their identity or the color of their clothes?

Inspired by the Pattern and Decoration movement, the internationally acclaimed artist proclaims a vision of diversity, emotion and cultural transfer with Color Floating. Nevin Aladağ articulates her political-global claim not in the form of admonitions, but with captivating lightness and beauty.