Designboom_ Buşra Tunç presents Leftover, her solo exhibition at Fener House in Istanbul, which explores industrial remnants, atmospheric elements of workshops, and production waste through the lens of industrial archaeology. The exhibition stems from Tunç’s extensive research within a medium-scale complex focusing on serial production. She questions the fate of these leftovers, their reentry into production cycles, and how they form their own economies and sociologies. The accumulated powder coatings, metal shavings, oxidation, and scraps at these production sites resemble geological formations, indicating a continuous process battling decay and entropy. Leftover examines the unintended aesthetics of materials that failed to become products due to production errors, unforeseen possibilities, and associated losses.

Buşra Tunç investigates environments such as metal workshops, paint shops, and plastic injection molding factories, examining how traces of time and material manifest in architecture, human bodies, and psychology. The exhibition reflects on concepts of invisible labor, interrupted time, and lost matter. In the basement, the Turkish artist sets up a room where a functioning machine processes raw material, injects it, and molds it. This process is captured in videos that trace the machine’s coordinates, highlighting connections with the human body through vibrations, tremors, interlocking, and separations of machine parts. The circulation area features production residues, while a rubber spill in the main area exemplifies the irregular materials the artist uses to question normative contexts and daily functions.