Rozelin Akgün is an artist and researcher based in Diyarbakır (Amed). Trained in landscape architecture, her practice brings together biomaterials, ecological processes, scientific inquiry, and local knowledge systems. In her work, she explores materiality, the agency of matter, and the entangled temporalities of bodies, environments, and more-than-human life. Her installations, developed through sustained research and material experimentation, remain unstable in form and emerge as dynamic, fluid systems shaped by transformation, decay, and renewal. Working with living and ephemeral substances, she reflects on permeability, fragility, and coexistence. Her recent exhibitions and projects include States of the Earth, Yapı Kredi Culture and Arts, Turkey (2024); Sediment, < rotor >, Austria (2024); Upcycle Istanbul Art & Design Festival, Müze Gazhane, Turkey (2025); Triangle: A Dialogue, Rast Gallery, Turkey (2025); and SaDe, Saint Benoît French High School, Turkey (2025).

During her residency at AiR 351, she will develop, What Remains in Matter, is a research-based project that continues my engagement with biomaterials, ecological processes, and more-than-human forms of life. During the residency, I would like to explore how organic materials may hold traces of care through their instability, permeability, and transformation. Rather than treating matter as passive substance, I am interested in its agency, its responsiveness to environmental conditions, and the temporalities it carries. I am also interested in allowing the research to be shaped by encounters with the local context, including its materials, ecological rhythms, and situated forms of knowledge. Through sustained research and material experimentation, I hope to follow forms and processes that remain open to change, decay, and renewal. The project is informed by both scientific inquiry and local knowledge systems, and reflects on care as something that may also take material and ecological forms. In this way, the research stays open to questions of fragility, interdependence, and coexistence through the shifting life of matter.