Director: Erkan Gürsel
Türkiye, 2024, 48, DCP, color
English, Turkish, Arabic with Turkish, English subtitles
8 months have passed since the February 6 and 20th earthquakes that struck Kahramanmaraş in south-eastern Turkey. In the centrally located Affan neighbourhood of Antakya, where the earthquakes had devastating effects, Erkan stands amidst the rubble of his family home with his relatives to survey the damage. On one side is his father, who left the neighbourhood to study in London in the 1970s and returned ever-since only for short visits. On the other side is his aunt, who never left Affan even in the aftermath of the disasters. Passing through the same streets on different days with either his father or his aunt by his side, Erkan invites the audience to witness the personal history of his family, and by extension, the history of the neighbourhood and the impacts of the earthquakes.
In 1998 Ben Jakober and Yannick Vu collaborated on an obvious remake of Marcel Duchamp’s Roue de Bicyclette, his first “readymade” object. Duchamp combined a bicycle wheel, a fork and a stool to create a machine which served no purpose, subverting accepted norms of art.
Suggesting alternative models for new social and economic systems, SUPERFLEX works appear before us as energy systems, beverages, sculptures, copies, hypnosis sessions, infrastructure, paintings, plant nurseries, contracts, or specifically designed public spaces.
Having penetrated the Balkans in the fourteenth century, conquered Constantinople in the fifteenth, and reached the gates of Vienna in the sixteenth, the Ottoman Empire long struck fear into European hearts.
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