The exhibition: "fawns, children, flowers, flames" will welcome its visitors again!
04/01/2023 | Özge Gökpınar
The exhibition will welcome its visitors again starting from 12 January 2023 Thursday at 19:00 at Institut français Ankara .
The exhibition: "fawns, children, flowers, flames" will welcome its visitors again starting from 12 January 2023 Thursday at 19:00 at Institut français Ankara within the scope of the 17 May Association's Climate Studies program.
The outputs of the "Gender Equality and Climate Crisis Workshop (Çizgili Çalıştay)" held by the 17 May Association and Kaos GL in Ankara on 28-29 October 2022 with the participation of artists from various disciplines was shared in artistic form with this exhibition: “fawns, children, flowers, flames” at Karikatür Atölyesi before between 9 -23 December 2022.
“Fawns, children, flowers, flames” exhibition will welcome its visitors this time at Institut français Ankara between 12 January-5 February 2022. The artists participating in the exhibition will exhibit their artworks in the light of queer ecology, by being inspired from 17 May Association's An Introduction to the Intersectionality of LGBTI+ Community & Climate Crisis- Commencing the transition by self transition: Climate 101- Recommendation Guide published in 2021, while there will be conversation with some of the artists as the opening event in 12 January 2023 Thursday 19:00 at Institut français Ankara.
The artists in the exhibition are as follows:
Zeynep Özatalay, Murat Başol, Filiz Mungan, Mete Arif Tokmak, Arel Talu, Cansu Gürsu, Hasan Doğan Yılmaz, Emre Yılmaz, Numan Seven, Elif Atılır, Döndü Özkök, Nilay Hazal Başarır, Göktuğ Danacı, Gizem Karagöz, Bartu Akyürek, Ekin Kılıç Ezer, Perfin Hozatlıoğlu and Aslı Alpar.
The introductory exhibition text is as follows:
"In Alice's wood where things that forgot their names/and fawn and children walked together fearless, /a stone might flower, a stream burst into flames, /a heavy human soul go light and careless. /But through the forest of the failing mind, /where words decay like fallen leaves, and paths long trodden /are lost, the souls plod onward to no end,/fawns, children, flowers, flames forgotten."
“Disremembering by Ursula K. El Guin*
* Ursula K. Le Guin, 'Disremembering‘, Late in the Day: Poems 2010-2014. PM Press, United States, 2016.
We are in that wood where “fawn and child walk together fearless". We are in that wood where we are abandoned because we do not resemble the image of the so-called majority and because we resist the domination of dualisms by unity.
The system established by the human species by centering itself threatens the future of all species, including itself. While states are trying to manage a global crisis with national tools, the policies they have developed do not have a vision other than “maintaining the order same as before”. Policies developed by ignoring the root causes of the global climate crisis leave not only non-human species behind, but also some of human beings behind.
Today's question is: “How do we survive?” This question is the result of the idea formed by assuming that the world we live in or similarly the body we live in are opposing dualisms: “Natural-artificial”, “normal-abnormal”, “wild-domestic” … Indeed, that is not the way the world is. Nature and all the species that live in it are in symbiotic contact, relational and in need of each other. Not opposing, but intertwined and united.
Therefore, it is not possible to prevent the global climate crisis only with "environmentalist" superficial policies. A meaningful fight against the climate crisis originating from all the unequal relations we have established, can be ensured by anti-capitalist, collective, egalitarian and queer transformation.
In this group exhibition, which we desire to realize this experience by art, by being inspired from the verses of Ursula K. Le Guin, we wanted to make sure that “fawns, children, flowers, flames” are not forgotten.
* This event is held with the support of Urgent Action Fund-Feminist Innovation Fund and Embassy of France Ankara and Institut français Ankara within the scope of 17 May Association Climate Studies.