Sunday: Fragile

Appropriating found objects and images and incorporating them into his own works, Volkan Aslan used the seven days of the week as the backbone for his solo exhibition "Don’t Forget to Remember" held at Arter in 2013. For the exhibition, the artist connected each day to his own personal experiences and perceptions by associating them with ready-made objects and templates, thus infusing the days of the week with his personal rhythm and sense of time. In "Sunday: Fragile", one of the seven works in the series, Volkan Aslan plays with the light and loose rhythm of weekends – times to forget rather than remember – and forms a strange collection of trinkets featuring distorted, mutant figures. Some were broken when he bought them and others he deliberately broke himself. These figurines and trinkets collected from flea markets the artist visited on Sundays were later obsessively glued together in unique, hybridised forms, transforming a fun weekend leisure activity into a free and creative process. In "Sunday: Fragile", Aslan creates a rich narrative plane intertwining nostalgia, hobby, childhood, belonging, home and family.