Exhibition, Şafak Şule Kemancı "lean on me the earth tree"

Şafak Şule Kemancı's solo exhibition "lean on me, the earth tree" will meet the audience at Ka on November 5th.

In this exhibition focused on Arkadaş Z. Özger, memory, historicity, compassion, mourning, and desire, Şafak Şule Kemancı, one of the guest artists of Ankara Queer Art Program, intervenes to queer expropriated biographies and histories. She calls for a process of collective healing through radical compassion and reorganization of the past.

"In Ankara, where Arkadaş Z. Özger was drawn apart from the stars, in the world of the nettles surrounding him, of the thorny "solidities", of the rattle devils playing their tambourines while reproducing the macro and micro norms of masculinity in flesh and bone, and taking his silence as their ground, of the worms whose rings infinitely multiply as they keep speaking, in the world of the "normal" that lets hope die on the vine, Şafak Şule Kemancı is…