Aylin Derya Stahl is a Berlin-based artist working across photography, installation, moving image,
sound and text. Central to her practice is an investigation of time and its materialization, with an
emphasis on the liminal spaces where time and place destabilize. Interested in how material change
can provide conceptual and aesthetic tools, Stahl engages with the latent language of objects and
images as they transform, decay or disappear, and explores the in-between states that emerge during
these processes of disintegration.

Her interest in the interdisciplinary field of archaeology informs her practice, which focuses on
uncovering, preserving and interpreting fragments of the past and bringing them into the present.

During her residency at A.Farm, the artist intends to further investigate the disintegration of images
through the process of weathering. The project, Fixing on the Verge of Disappearance, focuses on
photographic and printed images that turn blue after prolonged exposure to the sun, the colour shift
resulting from the breakdown of other pigments in the ink. Stahl is engaged with these images that
spread without being desired – images that dwell on the threshold of defamiliarisation, constantly
reminding us of their spectral qualities. While less concerned with their pictorial qualities or the inherent
hierarchy that images undergo, she explores the material language of these images as they deform and
offer new points of entry: Speculative geographies, accidental compositions and the blending of
seemingly disparate moments in time.

Learn more about her works: aylinderyastahl.com

PAST EVENTS

April Open Studio | Virginie Tan & Aylin Derya Stahl

April 3, 2025