Asnax
Sculptural forms emerge at the meeting point between
mineral memory and organic transformation.
Asnax (Nazlı Asafrana) is an artist born in Geneva
and based in İstanbul. Her practice explores the ways organic systems grow, fracture and transform through the lens of mineral memory. Through sculptural forms created with glass and hybrid materials, she navigates the space between the ephemeral and enduring, fragility and resilience .
Over the past decade, glass has gradually become central to her practice. Working with crushed glass, alongside ceramic and hybrid materials, she develops sculptural forms that move between geological stillness and living change.
Her ongoing research unfolds through the Mineral Mushroom works and the evolving Fractured bloom works, forming part of a broader sculptural framework that investigates the morphologies by which landscapes organise themselves and store memory.
Before focusing on sculpture, she studied Graphic design at Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts
and received her MFA from Boston University.
Her background in corporate design and illustration
continues to inform structural clarity of her sculptural language.