Enchanting us with experimental narrative exercises that employ mechanisms of erasure, repetition, replicas and interplay, Aslı Çavuşoğlu works across various media to highlight the precarious and subjective nature of our shared histories. She sensibly assumes the role of an interpreter, writer or facilitator in her projects. In her work The Place of Stone she investigates the origins and history of lapis lazuli, which also calls for the examination of the colour blue across centuries and diverse geographies. From Central Asia, all the way to Africa then to Europe, Aslı follows the transitions of beauty and its shifting associations, from the sacred and the political to the emotional.