Berna Ay, is an artist whose practice explores the relationship between humans and their environment, particularly through the psychological and physical effects of climate change on human health. She makes visible the psychosomatic effects of environmental transformations through drawings and poems.
KNOTTED
There is an invisible movement inside the body.
Sometimes knotted, sometimes tightened, sometimes loosened.This series begins with small changes I noticed in my own body. Digestion, sensitivity, bloating, pain, and irregularity are often invisible from the outside, yet they gradually become a landscape within the body.I think of the bowels not only as a physical organ, but as a space where emotions, habits, and everyday life are also held.The twisting, knotting, and intertwining forms in the works trace this inner movement.

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