an exhibition and a book

Kurtuluş Greek Primary School,
15 September - 24 October, 2022

Exhibition
The exhibition, Also your wound, Rosa, concentrates on the concept of vulnerability and its redefinition in feminist thinking considering how one responds to vulnerability depends on how one understands vulnerability. The exhibition accentuates some aspects of the feminist theorizing of vulnerability: firstly, the psychoanalytically informed understanding of vulnerability as an effect of psychic or social trauma; secondly, the phenomenological understanding of vulnerability as an ontological condition of the embodied subject; and finally, the critical theoretical notion of vulnerability as a particular politically produced condition.

The artists’ works acknowledge various layers of vulnerabilities as a potential for change, while examining them in a quiet yet potent manner. The exhibition aspires to encourage spectators to open themselves to different perceptions of vulnerability and to let themselves be affected by what they are looking at. That is, after all, one of the many aspects of what vulnerability is.

Participating Artists
Ozgur Demirci, Alev Ersan, Gamze Hakverdi, Gordon Hall, Adelita Husni-Bey, Amal Kenawy, Lata Mani & Nicholas Grandi, Jang Minseung and Gregory Whitehead.

Curated By
Pelin Uran

Book
The book is a joint publishing project with New York-based Minerva Projects, based on the writing practices of the artists participating in the exhibition.

Yasmeen Siddiqui and Pelin Uran co-edited the writings in the book. Elif Ersavcı translated the texts from English to Turkish and Ali Cindoruk is responsible for the outlook of the book, which is published by Ofset Printing. Minerva Projects will also handle the distribution.

Participating Artists
Ozgur Demirci, Alev Ersan, Gamze Hakverdi, Gordon Hall, Johanna Hedva, Adelita Husni-Bey, Amal Kenawy, Lata Mani & Nicholas Grandi, Jang Minseung and Gregory Whitehead.

Co-edited By
Yasmeen Siddiqui and Pelin Uran