Hera Büyüktaşçıyan’s installation, The Wanderer's Storm-Song, 2018, takes its title from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s poem of the same name and spreads several stacks of domestic white pillowcases across the gallery floor. Each stack lifts up off the floor, revealing small brass feet. In this form, the pillowcases become waves, which are inspired by vibrations of memory and
reflect movement of people throughout various times in history. Each object, made of a material formerly used to rest your head, to dream, has been transformed into the curl or break of a wave. The white foam of crashing wave signals the moment when the energy of the wave comes in contact with land becomes another kind of energy. Looking at Büyüktaşçıyan’s work through
the lens of geological time, we ask: What has happened here before us? What will happen after us? Sensitivity to urban transformation and disappearance of populations bring to the surface invisible cycles as well as our shifting attitudes towards them.