31st May
of Resistance (2000) This work has been produced with the invitation for a participation
to the exhibition “Resistance” at Yıldız Technical Unversity. When The artist receives an invitation for the exhibition ‘Resistance’, she
immediately accepts to be a participant. She will enter the gate as an
artist which she could not as a student. The opening which is held on 31st of May is also the artists’ 30th birtday. Ironically, the artist
selects images from press. The images belong to the 1st of May
Protests within thirty years. As the artist is responsible for making the
posters of the exhibition, she makes a colage of the images in order to show
that nothing has had changed in thirty years’ protests. The posters in A3
format are all hanged on the walls of the university as a part of the
exhibition. But the process of the work has not ended. The posters are all
torn down by the managers, cleaners and he right-wing students although they
are told that the posters are a part of the exhibition that will take place
in their University. Hence there is nothing left to do. The artist decreases
the size of the posters into A4 Format and uses the stamp sticking way to
install her ruined work. She uses all the leftovers of the posters as stamps
and sticks on everywall of the University. By behaving so, the artist and
her work is claimed to be illegal again.
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