In Andrey Tarkovsky’s film Solaris, the planet materializes memory, emotion, and fantasy — confronting rational scientists with the limits of reason. Excavation of Solaris emerged during the early months of the pandemic, when rationality collapsed and life shrank into domestic repetition and disorientation. In this state of uncertainty, I tried to imitate the planet of Solaris — to allow memory, emotion, and fantasy to surface through matter.
Every day, for three months, I created an object using the leftover materials of my daily life. I worked without planning or interpretation, transforming garbage not as waste, but as a carrier of time. These objects became a research into how the past could be reimagined through unconscious repetition. The fragments were later installed on ceramic tiles from my bathroom floor, materializing the entanglement between human presence and residual matter. The work is ongoing — a lifelong project born in emergency.
BIO/
Dilan Perisan is a Kurdish multidisciplinary artist based in Bologna. Her work investigates how bodies, objects, and spaces entangle memory, fracture, and time. She often works with materials bearing traces of use, abandonment, or domestic proximity—plastic, powder, scent, skin-like residues—not as passive elements but as entangled agents that co-transform with the self and its ruptures.
She studied architecture and worked in Ankara, Saronno, and Rome before shifting to visual arts. She earned her degree in Painting from NABA (Milan) in 2022 with a thesis exploring votive objects and familial trauma, grounded in the Maraş Massacre in Turkey. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Sculpture at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna and took part in an exchange at Chelsea College of Arts, London.
Perisan’s practice draws from new materialisms and feminist theory, positioning the self not as a fixed identity, but as a porous, entangled one. She has exhibited her work in Milan, Bologna, London, Istanbul, and South Korea, including at Otto Zoo and P420 Gallery. In 2024, she was selected for the Mamut Art Project in Istanbul. She is currently in residence at Marsala Due in Bologna.