100.07 hours
Oil, Brilliant blue Microbiological stain, Motor oil, Spray paint, Ink, Encaustic wax and Washing up liquid on MDF
20cm x 20cm, 1.75m wide by 1.2m high
2017
When beginning experimentation for the exhibition at Radcliffe Science library, Sabanci acquired process and procedure sheets that involved particular steps the scientists follow inside the laboratory. She then began rephrasing the words within an art context. She explored the experimental processes that they follow through instruction- based art to see what would emerge out of these specific, repeated actions. In the lab, scientists would continually repeat the same steps, requiring patience. Sabanci aimed to take on a procedural repetition, as a form of knowledge and artistic practice. For her main medium, she would use the same microbiological stain ‘Brilliant blue’ that is used in the labs to reveal DNA. 100 hours 07 minutes consists of 20 paintings, all 20x20cm each and all following 20 slightly different procedures and instructions. The repetitious tasks she had set for herself had a scientific origin whilst exploring and revealing the hidden values of particular materials. The scientists at Structural Genomics Consortium take on at times quite mundane steps, which is something she focused on within a meditative way. Sabanci took aspects of the process and procedures the scientists at the SGC use, for instance, she would be using the same materials but changing the quantity of how much she used. Whilst what she was doing is not authentically scientific, it is very much methodical by making artwork that references scientific experiments. The repetitive steps were focusing and became purely about herself being with particular materials, taking approximately 100 hours 07 minutes to complete. The work communicates her intentions of labour; you can see on the instruction-based paintings how many steps have been involved and how each one was created.
Oil, Brilliant blue Microbiological stain, Motor oil, Spray paint, Ink, Encaustic wax and Washing up liquid on MDF
20cm x 20cm, 1.75m wide by 1.2m high
2017
When beginning experimentation for the exhibition at Radcliffe Science library, Sabanci acquired process and procedure sheets that involved particular steps the scientists follow inside the laboratory. She then began rephrasing the words within an art context. She explored the experimental processes that they follow through instruction- based art to see what would emerge out of these specific, repeated actions. In the lab, scientists would continually repeat the same steps, requiring patience. Sabanci aimed to take on a procedural repetition, as a form of knowledge and artistic practice. For her main medium, she would use the same microbiological stain ‘Brilliant blue’ that is used in the labs to reveal DNA. 100 hours 07 minutes consists of 20 paintings, all 20x20cm each and all following 20 slightly different procedures and instructions. The repetitious tasks she had set for herself had a scientific origin whilst exploring and revealing the hidden values of particular materials. The scientists at Structural Genomics Consortium take on at times quite mundane steps, which is something she focused on within a meditative way. Sabanci took aspects of the process and procedures the scientists at the SGC use, for instance, she would be using the same materials but changing the quantity of how much she used. Whilst what she was doing is not authentically scientific, it is very much methodical by making artwork that references scientific experiments. The repetitive steps were focusing and became purely about herself being with particular materials, taking approximately 100 hours 07 minutes to complete. The work communicates her intentions of labour; you can see on the instruction-based paintings how many steps have been involved and how each one was created.