SALOON: There is no country in our hearts
Georgia Sagri

  • SALOON: There is no country in our hearts

As part of the exhibition "In the Heart of the Country" SALOON presents "There is no country in our hearts". For October 2, SALOON invites the works of the artists Geta Brătescu and Asli Çavuşoğlu.

SALOON: There is no country in our hearts

"There is no country in our hearts" I told her and she looked at me with surprise. I couldn't suggest a drink after that look of hers. With that gaze of hers, its discomfort that made me think of my knees and how I need to open my bag without reason, just checking things in my bag I walked and walked for hours. I started recording my voice saying how I hate being asked from which country I am, those shitty borders, nationalities, national expectations for what, for whom exactly are those expectations for, for which reason to talk my mother tongue like there is something that belongs to me when I speak it? I want my steps to be steps of pleasure for the things I do that I don't need to name, - I recorded that- the smells, sounds, textures, clothing and behaviors of a different world.

G.S. 2013

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