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A Garden of Dust
This weekend, an important opening took place in Brussels. At Villa Canapé, art, nature, and nostalgia came together. The exhibition, which began with the idea that gardens don’t have to look like paintings, emphasized the spontaneity of nature and the traces of time in living spaces. The garden of Villa Canapé is not just a place; […]
The straight story
We recently received the news of the passing of the legend of Turkish arabesque music, Ferdi Tayfur. Right in those days, his song Stop the World was playing in my head, as I was fed up with the occupation, massacre, rape, cunningness around me and a system that tried to normalize these and those at the […]
100 Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude.. I read this book by Gabriel García Márquez many years ago. When I read it, I felt like I was in a magical world. What I remember is an old woman who is blind but moves around the house as if she can see every point, and the one that […]
The Color of Pomegranates
Life and humanity have no boundaries in essence. But it is again us: we create them for political reasons. I did my university internship in a factory in Poland with the student exchange program. In 1984, Eastern Europe was still behind the iron curtain. I encountered the reality of controlled borders at the entrance and exit of […]
Sound and Padre Padrone
We come to the earth from a dark. We hear before we see. It is apparently quite noisy inside the womb, about 90 decibels, the level of background noise in an apartment next to an elevated train. There is first the flow of all liquids we hear, and the beautiful heartbeat of our mother. It […]
Once upon a time
Yes, fairy tales always start like this. Then continue with “The sieve is in straw…” in Turkish versions. We listened to them without thinking what the sieve was. It did not really matter anyway. The main thing was that the good won. Even if they could not meet sometimes, the lovers were always in love. Everything is possible in fairy tales. Dreams or troubles. But there is always a learning point. […]
MAX Diversity
We humans have always migrated. If it is to your liking, it is a multicultural world adventure. But if it is forced migration, it is an unpleasant journey. Separation from home, first of all. And always long for that. But if you are not received with empathy, or not received at all, it hurts much […]
When memories bloom
“A madman far from the world,” says Turkish poet Sebahattin Ali for his melancholy state. The music group Yeni Türkü asks in their famous song: “Which is homeland for us, where is abroad”. Where are we actually? Nostalgia is described as longing for a moment or place in the past. Melancholy is a state […]
Participatory echoes
Notes inspired by two participatory artistic practices: Memories are some kind of recording system. Our lives pass before our eyes like a filmstrip. Then come the objects we interact with. They contain different aspects of life. Bell is one of them. Bells take place in different parts of social life, big or small. We see them in the churchs, in the hand of Santa Claus, […]
A journey of hope
A Turkish proverb says, ‘Hope is the bread of the poor.’ We obviously hope for what we are lacking. If we need to feed ourselves, it is then what we hope for. But is that all about hope? Maybe we carry hope in our genes. Well, would someone who has no hope for the future want to have children? Especially the parents of the baby boom times? It is precisely […]