For nearly five years, I collected and dried the disposable contact lenses I wore each day, preserving them after use in a glass jar. Initially gathered without a clear intention, they gradually became a personal archive of vision.
Fascinated by the material transformations that occurred over time, I began observing the subtle differences in their forms, textures, and deformations. Each lens carried traces of a particular day, silently accompanying experiences, encounters, emotions, and ways of seeing.
Placed directly on the eye, these artificial surfaces corrected and mediated my perception of the world. Once removed, they became fragile remnants of that relationship; small translucent records of looking. The work reflects on vision, memory, and the material residue left behind by everyday acts of seeing.
Convex 0.75 Concave 0.75 Axis 180
Self – Magnetic Resonance
Following a series of recurring headaches and neurological episodes, the artist undergoes a brain MRI examination. What begins as a medical procedure gradually unfolds into an encounter with an unfamiliar inner landscape.
Suspended between diagnosis and uncertainty, she is confronted with images of her own mind—its contours, depths, and invisible territories. As clinical data transforms into moving image, the body becomes both subject and terrain.
Self – Magnetic Resonance reflects on vulnerability, surrender, and the strange intimacy of looking inward. Moving through darkness, sound, repetition, and silence, the work traces a fleeting moment in which the boundaries between self, body, and image begin to dissolve.
Editing: Doruk Kaya
