Flight Amidst a Blue Sun (2023)Screen-print on 100% cotton paper
9 x 11” Edition 1/10
Black Sea Spirit (2024)Screen-print on 100% cotton paper
15 x 20 1/2
Aegean Shadow installation exhibited at Remote Gallery in Tkarón:to/Toronto, Canada (35mm, August 2023).
Aegean Shadow (2023)
Original title: Ege Gölgesi
film processing and development - Niagara Custom Lab
filmed on super 8mm - 3.03 min
Aegean Shadow (Ege Gölgesi) is an experimental mixed-media film by Özge Dilan Arslan that delves into the memories, mythologies, and symbologies of Mount Ida’s environment located in the Gulf of Edremit, Türkiye, where Canadian-owned mining operation Alamos Gold has extracted natural resources. Using an assemblage of Super 8 mm footage of the Aegean Sea’s environment, transcribed journal entries, and scans of Carbon black relief prints, the film seeks to glean the shadows and preserve stories in a world shaped by destructive settler colonial infrastructures.
Excerpt from Ege Gölgesi (Aegean Shadow)