22 Feb Revolution is My Flowery Shirt

The Black Pink Counter Art Collective, who see the act of laughter as a victory against power and transform their lives into performance as an example of carnivalesque activism that organizes laughter, In the exhibition “Revolution is My Flowery Shirt”, a queer “retrospective” in memory of Zeliş and Boysan, who packed a lot of “revolution” into their short lives, the exhibition aims to show the claim that all bodily practices synonymous with the flowery shirt on the body of a man in the suburbs are also a kind of direct action through a space-dressing.

Project: Yavuz Cingöz

Curator: Cüneyt Cansever, Yavuz Cingöz, Ali Cem Doğan

“how unsettling the flowered shirt and rolled-up trousers of a sixteen-year-old queer sixteen-year-old sitting on a polyester fabric-covered minibus seat in a suburb that has flattened and lost its texture with human filth, with a luminous glow that cannot be explained by sebum alone – for those who wear the patterns of hunter’s clothing who do not want to be prey in harsh natural conditions…”