Artist Statement

Aylin Derya Stahl is a Berlin-based artist working across photography, installation, moving image, sound, and text. Her practice examines the materialization of time, with a focus on the thresholds where images and objects shift between presence and disappearance. Engaging with the latent language of material change, Stahl investigates how transformation, decay, and erosion generate new vantage points, making visible the in-between states that emerge in the process.

Informed by an archaeological approach, her work revolves around uncovering, preserving, and reinterpreting fragments of the past, considering how they persist — or dissolve — within the present. Through artistic research, Stahl explores the instability of perception, tracing how images and objects function as speculative records that exist between fact and fiction, memory and myth. By collecting and repurposing ephemeral materials, she examines the way places and objects are fossilized into cultural narratives, questioning the mechanics of historical representation and the limits of visual knowledge.