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2022
The "Home" exhibition was envisioned as an interdisciplinary meeting space, evolving into a traveling exhibition based in Istanbul, enriched by open lectures, artist talks, and interactive performance works. Conceptually, the exhibition explored “home” as an interpretation of the world, body, city, and art while employing a behavioral and practical approach.
Crafted as a nomadic showcase series, Yuva 1, the first stop of this journey, began in Kalamış Park with a guerrilla exhibition. Artworks were displayed across the park, accompanied by acoustic music performances by Selut and Parham A.G.
The audience and exhibition group, tasked with moving the surrounding works of art to the exhibition area, began the Fıkırwalk. This walking carnival embodied the loudness, joy, and color of the collective. Fıkırwalk was a celebration of reclaiming space in the most vibrant and unique way, as participants donned their finest attire and paraded through the streets.
The exhibition explored various themes, including ecology, queer resistance, the intersection of public and private spaces for community gathering, architecture, family, and the body. Conceptual contrasts such as local/global, settled/homeless, inside/outside, local/immigrant, and safe/insecure were central to the narration of the ideals behind this event series. It aimed to weave a collective narrative, offering critical representations of domestic and everyday behaviors while suggesting new ways of imagining community-based life through diverse perspectives expressed across various artistic mediums.
The event continued at SBCS, an underground venue dedicated to teaching performance art and hosting cultural community gatherings and exhibitions. SBCS opened its doors to Istanbul’s underground scene in 2022, with our YUVA exhibition becoming its first collaborative project. The exhibited works reflected the collective life and resistance of Istanbul’s queer and underground art scene under the concept of “home,” with each artist offering a unique interpretation.
The day ended with a small rave thanks to the powerful collaboration of underground artists—Fosil, Metz, and 3Pillie—celebrating the value of dance as a form of collective movement of celebrating our queerness in a safe space. Their performances defied the disappearance of safe spaces, embracing solidarity and joy in shared resistance.
photos by Sezin Mutlu & Idil_Ko