Slow Wanderings
How can we collectively reclaim space to slow down and imagine new just worlds together? Join us every Friday afternoon in January, when artists Müge Yilmaz and Sondi will activate the exhibition space through their works.
Müge will host open hours for The Adventures of Umay Ixa Kayakızı—a feminist science fiction library. She has spent years collecting more than 250 books by female, trans, and non-binary writers (sometimes under male pseudonyms) written in a speculative framework about possible future worlds. During these hours you can consult with Müge for book recommendations tailored to your interests and borrow a book from the library in consultation with the artist or you can simply treat these hours as a read-in to come and read books in the space.
Parallel to the open library hours, Sondi will activate her expansive video game installation through a series of listening sessions and collective moments of rest. Following in the tradition of visionary fiction, Sondi’s work offers a way to practise the future; one that reclaims stolen imaginations, normalises slow wanderings, and encourages a probing of our dream spaces as sites of possibility. For the listening sessions, Sondi will be inviting sound artists to create a sonic space for collective refuge.
10 January — 16:00-18:00
17 January — 16:00-18:00
24 January — 16:00-18:00
31 January — 16:00-18:00
Tickets: visitors can drop in and join with a regular ticket to the exhibition.
Sondi is a new media artist from Germany, born in Cameroon and based in the Netherlands. Her work is deeply rooted in her identity as a person of the diaspora and acts as a conduit to unravel the intricate and intimate layers of identity, belonging, ownership, and heritage. Her artistic process centres around the concept of worldbuilding, creating virtual environments where memory, ancestry, and imagination enter into being. In these virtual dreamscapes, she examines new modes of being, using the power of imagination as an instrument of liberation.
Müge Yılmaz examines in her work the paradoxes around the concept of protection with a focus on community, survival and belief (faith). Through performances, photographs, and installations she creates immersive environments inspired by feminist science-fiction. Following the concept of three ecologies for observing the mental (subjective), societal, and environmental developments in a parallel method, she uses these mediums as tools for envisioning potential futures.
