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Standing Form

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(Two-part) Sculpture

Stoneware, engobe, and glaze

With pedestal
53,5 x 19 x 19 cm
Without pedestal
34 x 14 x 11 cm

Unique work, 2026

Standing_Form_Zeynep_Boyan
Standing_Form_Zeynep_Boyan

Standing Form unfolds as a vertical landscape: part growth, part gesture, part memory. Sculpted entirely by hand, the work moves between sharp protrusions and gentle curves, holding tension and delicacy in balance.
 

Its silhouette recalls a flowering body or a plant suspended mid-bloom, caught between emergence and erosion. As daylight moves across its bronze-like surface, shifting light reveals changing relationships between pointed edges and rounded volumes.

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“The work begins with an imagined act of listening to a plant. Drawing on the bioelectric signals of wild white and pink roses, translated into sound through modular synthesis, it considers the plant as a body with its own rhythms, vibrations, and language. I imagine closing my eyes and attending to its smallest movements: wind passing through a petal, the subtle friction of contact, a shift in breath or atmosphere. Through this act of listening, the rose becomes both material presence and a point of entry into an otherworldly space—one in which distinctions between body, plant, sound, and surroundings begin to dissolve.”

Zeynep Boyan 

References

Bio Music Vibrations_listening to wild roses

i. Bio Music Vibrations: Listening to wild roses (2026).

“Lily of The Valley, Water Avens, Common Milkwort (Liljekonvaljen, Fårkummern, Jungfruline

iii. Hilma Af Klint, Convallaria majalis (Lily of the Valley), Geum rivale (Water Avens), Polygala vulgaris (Common Milkwort). Sheet 11 from the portfolio: Nature Studies, June 10–11, 1919.

Altar piece No.2 (1915)_Hilma af Klint

ii. Hilma af Klint, Altar piece No.2 (1915).

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iv.  Karl Blossfeldt, Silphium laciniatum, compass plant (1900-28).

Karl Blossfeldt, Polystichum munitum, Wunder in der Natur, c. 1920s

v. Karl Blossfeldt, Polystichum munitum, Wunder in der Natur, c. 1920s.

Hilma Af Klint, Primordial Chaos No 16

vi. Hilma Af Klint, Primordial Chaos No. 16.

    Zeynep Boyan © 2026

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