Curated by Ceren Erdem and Bilge Kalfa, “Grounded” at the Türkiye Pavilion of the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale approaches soil as a carrier of ecological and cultural memory, presenting it as an ecosystem that embodies natural intelligence and serves as a living archive and supportive model. The exhibition emphasises that this often-overlooked element provides crucial insights into past civilizations and ecological systems, and highlights the potential for coexistence with nature.
Individual participants: Hüseyin Aksoy, Michael Akstaller, E. Füsun Alioğlu & Senem Akçay, Ali Mahmut Demirel, Sinem Dişli, Yelda Gin, Ali Miharbi, Özgül Öztürk, Serkan Taycan, Orkan Telhan.
Participating teams: Bire-Pan, Common Action Walls, Herkes İçin Mimarlık & Poçolana Works, Mono Earth, Ozruh, Rec II, ReYard House, Solidified, Yalın Architects.
The work I am contributing is called “Tremor”. The concept stems from people’s tendency to look at objects such as chandeliers and other light fixtures that sway during small seismic events, to find out whether or not what is happening is an earthquake. The lamp hanging from the ceiling of the venue is activated at specific intervals by a motorised mechanism in order to create the sensation of a earth tremor, thus evoking the feeling of Earth’s constant, unpredictable motion. These movements are controlled by a microprocessor programmed with the seismic data recorded in Türkiye over the past ten years and the probabilities extrapolated from it. Some of them occur once every two minutes while others once every two hours, serving as a reminder of the Anatolian plate’s dynamic nature and the reality of life within an earthquake zone.
May 10–November 23, 2025
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