Monument for a Hummingbird by Murat Cem Mengüç

Watercolors by Murat Cem Mengüç

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“What else will need to abide by my rule in this new war of the world—those minerals, lakes, air particles, and currents that thrive in one formation but not another?”

—Elizabeth A. Povinelli

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Murat Cem Mengüç’s Monument for a Hummingbird is a splice of watercolors and ink drawings which have been germinating in a series of sketchbooks spanning years. A result of the artist’s geologically informed daydreaming, the collection is composed of visions mineral and vegetal. In these dioramas, formations that might normally be relegated to scenography are foregrounded, allowing them to emerge as the prime source of movement, of elemental animation, of an eventfulness beyond anthropic fathoming.

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2024
Edition of 400
80 pages, paperback, 12×17 cm, color offset, sewn & glued
Printed on Arctic Munken Print Cream 115 and Pure Rough 300
Designed by Sevinç Çalhanoğlu
ISBN 978-83-68165-03-6

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Murat Cem Mengüç is an artist, activist, curator, writer, and historian. He is the founder of Studio Teleocene, which is dedicated to the study of art and environment, and a member of Cultivate Studios, a platform for a contemporary redefinition of landscape. He lives and grows food in North Potomac, Maryland, at the intersection of the Potomac River and the Seneca Trail, the ancestral home of the Piscataway people.

Monument for a Hummingbird is pairable with Murat Cem Mengüç’s Bloom & Doom (Bored Wolves, 2023), a stand-alone zine of ink drawings motivated by parallels between the Late Devonian mass extinction and our accelerating present-time Traumacene.