First Day of My New Life 2

2026 | MeshRu, Istanbul
Felekşan Onar × Volkan Aslan

First Day of My New Life 2 continues the artistic dialogue initiated by Felekşan Onar and Volkan Aslan at Radar, Istanbul, in 2025. Moving beyond the broken porcelain figures of their first collaboration, the artists expand their material vocabulary to include found objects in wood and metal, bringing together distinct histories, textures, and forms.

Through the encounter between discarded fragments and glass, familiar objects are displaced from their original contexts and reimagined as new sculptural entities. Rather than erasing the evidence of rupture, these interventions preserve traces of former identities while opening possibilities for transformation.

Situated between destruction and renewal, the works consider fragility not as a condition of loss alone, but as a space of potential—where memory persists and new narratives emerge.