Fatoş İrwen was at the 5th International Mardin Biennial

The 5th Mardin Biennial, which took place from May 20 to June 20, will explore the possibility of mystical cosmopolitics or a social ecology steeped in the notion of renouncement. This is being examined against the backdrop of the swelling tide of disenfranchised humanity (and more-than-humans) alongside a literal rise in the sea levels.

The exhibition, which includes Fatoş İrwen, speculatively engaged the counter-intuitive notion that globalized dispossession is not an existential dead-end but denotes instead the point where capitalist territorialization having come a full circle, finds its logos and values reversed, to reveal in renouncement the building blocks for a new order based on the ideals of non-filial sociality, parceled sovereignty, and creative communing. 

https://mardinbienali.org/conceptual/

July 8, 2022