Random Walk, Feeding, and Weather (2025) disrupts linear movement and guides viewers into non-directed, embodied navigation – or, according to the artist, a ‘random walk’. A central vertical sculpture recalling data streams, nervous systems and infrastructural networks anchors the space. The work unfolds as a live, server-based ecosystem: open computers embedded in the platform generate data in real time through perpetually created browser windows, producing phrases that circulate through the gallery accompanied by airflow generated from cooling systems, turning computation into a form of ambient ‘weather’.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Merve Mepa (b. 1985, Kocaeli) lives and works in Istanbul. Her work focuses on the narratives and visual culture of labour and networked structures, through digital media and sculpture. She examines the evolving relationships between data flows, cultural knowledge systems and spatial organisation of digital infrastructure in everyday life. Group exhibitions include Ali Taptık, Merve Mepa, Aslı Uludağ, as part of the Salt Artistic Research and Production Grant Program, Salt Galata, Istanbul (2025); In Sync, OI_Focus, Noise_Media Art Vienna, Palais Festetics, Vienna (2024); OI_Emerge 01, Noise_Media Art, Alan Kadıköy, Istanbul (2024).
EXHIBITED WORKS
Merve Mepa (b. 1985)
Random Walk, Feeding, Weather, 2025
Galvanized steel panels, air ducts, pipes, metal racks, open-air computers and fans, seating unit, screens, LED lighting, quartz crystal singing bowl
Variable dimensions
Courtesy of the artist
