25/11/2025
A new addition to the Sakıp Sabancı Museum collection, the video Post-Nature Studies V.2 by contemporary artist Murat Durusoy, a Sabancı University graduate and part-time faculty member, has been presented in the halls where the Arts of the Book and Calligraphy Collection is exhibited.
Located in what was once the viewing balcony of the Atlı Köşk and later repurposed as the Landscape Room after its conversion into a museum, the work draws inspiration from the Judas tree, laurel, sweetgum, oleander, and rosemary plants in the SSM Garden. These plants are transformed into synthetic polymers, circuit boards, and metal textures, creating a landscape where nature intertwines with man-made materials. It alludes to the Anthropocene Era, a time when human impact is permanently altering the planet's natural balance and the climate crisis is increasingly felt.
Durusoy's video creates an extraordinary interaction with works decorated with floral motifs from the Arts of the Book and Calligraphy Collection. Drawing inspiration from symmetrical calligraphic compositions adorned with gold foil, Durusoy reinterprets the tension between nature and technology as a "digital still life."
Murat Durusoy, an academic and contemporary artist working on the concepts of climate crisis, technology, memory, time, and imagery, constructs his "Post-Nature Studies" series as a space that not only observes nature but also recreates it through technology. By layering his own plant images with digital interventions, light refractions, and synthetic surface textures, he renders visible the traces of human intervention on nature's surface. This mode of production transforms both the documentary nature of photography and the understanding of time in video, offering the viewer a visual experience in which the boundaries between the organic and the artificial become increasingly blurred.
To mark the addition of the video Post-Nature Studies V.2 to SSM's collections, the artist, Murat Durusoy, and Dr. Ayşe Aldemir, director of the Arts of the Book and Calligraphy Collection, will give a talk on Saturday, November 29th at 2:00 PM, sharing the video's creation and exhibition process with visitors. The event is free for museum visitors.
The work, exhibited with the support of Samsung, can be viewed in the exhibition halls of the Arts of the Book and Calligraphy Collection on the upper floor of the Atlı Köşk every day except Mondays, from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM.
