Fatma Bucak: Book Launch I While The Dust Quickly Falls

While the Dust Quickly Falls, was published for Bucak’s titular exhibition at Kunsthaus Dresden in 2022, and considers the relationships between political violence, environmental destruction, and climate change. It moves across disparate geographies in Mediterranean cities connected by the catastrophic impact that conflict and war have had on their ecologies. It dwells on the loss of biodiversity, endangered and extinct plants, humanity’s interdependence on non-human beings, and healing in works ranging from living environment, video, sculpture, mosaic, and sound works. Join us at the gallery for a discussion of both the text and the artist’s practice, with a Q + A session featuring Sophie J Williamson.

Fatma Bucak is a visual artist who addresses the plurality of histories through a variety of artistic media, with themes of political identity, historical memory, and gender being critical to her research. In 2019, she was named one of the Royal Photographic Society’s ‘Hundred Heroines’, recognizing the achievements of women in contemporary art and photography. Her recent works focused on the intersection between political power and gender and climate change. Sophie J Williamson is a curator and author based between London and Margate, who has written for numerous publications including Frieze, Aesthetica, Elephant and Art Monthly. She recently founded Undead Matter, an online programme of art, poetry, writing and film as well as a multidisciplinary research platform focused on the intimacies of being with the geological. Williamson was Exhibitions Curator at Camden Art Centre (2013 – 21), prior to which she was part of the inaugural team at Raven Row (2009–13) and worked at the Singapore Biennale (2006), Venice Biennale (2007) and Manchester Asian Triennale (2008).

The book While The Dust Quickly Falls features texts byEcem Arslanay (Writer and editor) Eray Çaylı (Professor of Human Geography with a Focus on Violence and Security in the Anthropocene, University of Hamburg.)Kari Conte  (Curator, writer, and advisor at ISCP) Dr.Heather Davis  (Assistant Professor of Culture and Media, the New School NY.)and Christiane Mennicke-Schwarz (Curator and art historian and Director of Kunsthaus Dresden) Designed by Esen Karol.