art in a time of migration
Are these Danish Vestegn’s stations with election posters really chosen with care?
Having in mind how many immigrants that are living in the area?
The excluding titel: “Our election” and its visual racism, although none of them are blond in this poster..they all look like poor people.
So are these posters meant for Danes living in those areas to see that they are in fact “not alone”, that Dansk Folkeparti is thinking of them?!!
It happened again
The discrimination (read: Eurocentric gaze and inbuilt attitude)
and the Jantelaw.
The worst part being the passport control.
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Secretly I was trying to become a real Turk.(art work very much still in progress!!)
Secretly I was trying to catch up with the things I was missing from Turkish culture. Being born and raised 3500 km away from the motherland gives you certain gaps. And I didn’t want people to “mind the gap”/my gap as one is taught collectively in the London tube and also at Kokkedal train station in the North of Sealand in Denmark (one of the only few places where I felt a bit at home=London along with Copenhagen’s many family-kebab places where they serve you ayran, crap kebabs with compelling colorless salads accompanied by Turkish pop and Anatolian folk music!!).
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Hulya attending a literary event in Copenhagen Royal Library honoring Orhan Pamuk’s literary accomplishment s.
Great event.
Places of utopia.In Danish train.