Shooting back with ‘Ayip’
This photo is a part of a series from 2012, taken by photographer Sebnem Ugural. The word “Ayip” means shame in Turkish, I take an interest in the gendered shame of Turkish culture.
Hepimiz utaniyoruz (WE ARE ALL FEELING ASHAMED)
The Wall Project. The Russet. Hackney Downs, London.
THE BLACK SHEEP SPEAKS (BACK) IN BROWN (Explaining my work for the Wall-Project at The Russett Cafe in Hackney Downs:) Brown is the new black! This work is on my very early emotions on so-to-say my “second migration” to London. The words have been written with brown vinyl, as an indicator of my identity of […]
“Stereotyped” (video-installation)
“Stereotyped” (A performance research fully in progress. Therefore this should not be seen as a finished work.) Two video-loops of a performance carried out in Aarhus 3 times. The title “Stereo-typed” is a remixed hybrid-born word, ‘stereotyping and the inbuilt wording ‘typing’ indicating. stereotyping is something that actively happens to you, while you are trying […]