art in a time of migration
Life in progress. Change in progress. Cleaning in progress. I AM LEAVING… Gentrification in progress. I AM MOVING… Regenerate the area. I AM DALSTON… This is new. Come here now. Just passing by. I USED TO BE DALSTON. Transition in progress. Past, present, future. I AM STILL DALSTON… Degeneration in progress.
In the beginning was the word: – Almanya’ya means “to Germany”. (Background: Germany was the first and best/ (only) known European country name, when the first guest workers from Turkey went to Germany to work in the the late 1960ies) Thus it should be no surprize where the name for immigrant in Turkish derives from. […]
A photo-series from Ridley Road Market (after hours) Photo by Sebnem Ugural.
This multimedia, multi-background exhibition peaks at identities when they are taken out of their contour and re-framed, destroyed, or exposed. Each a Source: Foreign Bodies – A group Exhibition – Exhibition ‘Submission’ Exhibited at Invisible Line Gallery 2012, Dalston: Islam means submission. Women are living in a submissive position to men despite religion everywhere around […]