Relevant is different points on the circle, 2026
Landscape Documents (2024) and Speaking Sinkhole (2025) exhibited at İmalat-hane, Bursa, Turkey
“Titled Relevant is different points on the circle, the exhibition is curated by Aslı Seven.
The exhibition borrows its title from a poem by Audre Lorde, written in 1971 and later revised in 1992 in the aftermath of a hurricane. The circle here is neither closed nor harmonious. Rather, it is a historical figure that points to the shifting variability of difference and repetition, relation and distance. It is connected as much to the physics of geometric motion as to forms of social organization, and resonates with humor as a method of displacement.
Relevant is different points on the circle looks at accelerating processes of displacement; at the shifting and ambiguous nature of the extended kinship relations that sustain us within these conditions; and at their entanglement with violence and patriarchal power structures. Engaging imaginaries of more-than-human kinship without losing sight of the mediating role of technology and language, the exhibition embraces the critical genealogy linking ecological thought with postcolonial and queer struggles. It opens questions around human relations and the nuclear family as a site for the reproduction of power, whose effects reverberate across generations. What is the cost — and the fate — of love where power resides? What do we inherit, and how might we transform that inheritance?”—excerpted from the exhibition text.
