Leyla Aydoslu. ANTWERP, BELGIUM, 1987. lives and works IN GHENT, BELGIUM.

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AYDOSLU is represented by FRED & FERRY, ANTWERP, BELGIUM.

Leyla Aydoslu came to sculpture via painting. Once she started experimenting with different materials on canvas, her works automatically became three-dimensional and abandoned the given limitations of the stretcher frame. Working in space meant that the limitations of pre-given measurements no longer applied, the empty space replaced the pictorial space. Her own body and its limits, the span of her arms, the weight they can carry serve as a new frame. This reference to the body is an essential aspect in Leyla Aydoslu’s work both in the active role she plays during the process of creation, as well as in the physical experience that an object triggers in space, which is more immediate than that in front of a painting. You become part of the work itself is how Aydoslu describes it. “I was not interested in the possibilities of illusion that painting offers. Rather I am interested in creating physical experiences, which is what I found in sculpture. I want viewers to be able to see my working process, to move around the sculptures and subject themselves to them."

Leonie Pfennig