Spans in her practice from video to installations. Her work focuses on private stories, which are often humorous or ...

Asli Sungu (born 1975 Istanbul) is a German performance artist and painter.

6 Stop motion film produced from still photos, each 1 minute. 

The still images are produced as postcards, too. At the back of the postcards appears the poem of Sait Faik Abasıyanık called “ Red and Green” translated by Talat S.Halman.

Red.Green and Others

2022

End of and Era

In this work I rebuilt some of my dreams with the help of photo-collage. 

These dreams are for me in a sense very personal but at the same time they belong to the whole universe, they are a part of mythology, religion, culture.  

In these dreams the city that I live in is a mixture of İstanbul and Berlin. The photography helps me to show it. 

Photo-collages, each 150cm x 112,5cm

Dreams

2011- 2013 

In this work I asked my mother and father separately to style me according to their expectations of a daughter.  As my mother turns me into a primary- school aged little princess, my father turns me into a business woman with high-heels and mini skirt. 

2 Videos, Screen, 12 minutes and 14 minutes.  

JUST LIKE THE MOTHER & FATHER 

2006

In this work I asked a cook, dentist’s assistant and a cleaning lady to come to my flat in Berlin and stand behind the camera as I’m brushing my teeth, cleaning the window, ironing a shirt and making a salad. They’re invisible but we hear them making judgements, telling me how I do everything wrong. I try to follow their instructions. 

Four channel videos, shown simultaneously on monitor with headphones. 

7Min. 4Min. 6Min. 16Min. 

FAULTY

2008