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Work by Asli Narin: faded blue-toned vintage group photograph of many people posed in rows, in a circular vignette.
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Asli Narin

Some Wayside Wanderings No.1&2,2026 – Ongoing. Photographed by KC Crow Maddux. Image description: Two framed deep blue cyanotypes side by side, each covered with white map-like lines and looping orange paths.
Carpe Noctem, 2018. Image description: Installation view of dark gallery rooms, with small framed photographs hung across black and deep blue walls and a low gray bench.
I For Another, 2021. Image description: A wide wall of black-and-white branching patterns, like roots or veins, overlaid with dozens of small framed blue cyanotypes.
Syzygy, 2024. Image description: A long white building facade with a vertical marquee sign, its three large windows covered in deep blue images, one showing a dark eclipse.
Hand In Hand Installation, 2024. Image description: Installation view of a white wall with a blue-toned portrait of a woman, a blue group photo, and a hanging black-and-white fabric print.
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Asli Narin works across photography, video, and installation. Through intuitive image-making, she explores cosmic awareness, coexistence, and interconnectedness inspired by nature, often focusing on thresholds, dualities, and cycles of life. She collects and recombines images through cutting, mixing, deconstructing, and reordering, using processes such as cyanotype and moving images, and employing controlled randomness that echoes natural systems. As an image-maker and an immigrant, Narin embraces abstraction and collage as liberatory gestures against the borders and expectations of the photographic apparatus, using visual exploration to question how connectedness is felt and perceived.

Asli Narin is a visual artist based in the United States, originally from Turkey. She holds a BA in Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design from Sabanci University and an MA in Image and Communication from Goldsmiths, University of London. Her work has been presented nationally and internationally, including at the 16th Istanbul Biennial (2019, Turkey) and the Ruthin International Arts Festival (2024, UK), with recent exhibitions at the Silver Eye Center for Photography and the Houston Center for Photography. Her work is in collections including Eskenazi Health and the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art. She recently received the DeHaan Artist of Distinction Award from the Arts Council of Indianapolis and was an artist-in-residence at Visual Studies Workshop Project Space Residency.

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