If You Say It Forty Times...
Synopsis
Commissioned for the group exhibition Post-Peace curated by Katia Krupennikova, features the artist reading testimony from Turkish officials and public figures in which they claim they have “forgotten” key details regarding incidents of government-enacted violence. The exhibition was censored in Istanbul by Akbank Sanat in 2016, and opened in Württembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart on 25th February 2017.
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