Photos by Derin Cankaya
Live performance
2016
3 hours
As part of Sevinç Altan exhibition “Curtain”, Faik Paşa Street No:5
Istanbul
17 December 2016
love tr is a 3-hour research that explores what we do to each other’s wounds. Leman S. Darıcıoğlu prickles needles attached to red ropes to draw an heart on her* chest and write the initials of the Turkish Republic [TC] inside it. After that, she* gives the ropes to the audience hands, stays there for 3 hours.
The performance questions, through the concepts of body/wound/identity/contact, the issue of how belongings to the identities in the country where one is born and lives are shaped.