documenta fifteen: City Center
Part 3 of the photo tour through documenta fifteen. 18 June - 25 September 2022, Kassel, Germany. Artistic Direction: ruangrupa. 67 participants.
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(Artist and filmmaker, based in Berlin. Founder of MARSistanbul, an art initiative launched in 2010.)
Aşît. 2022
New film, produced for documenta fifteen
For her new film, Öğrenci returns to her father’s hometown, Müküs, within the mountainous region in southern Van. On Turkey’s border with Iran, this former capital of the Urartian civilization, and the Armenian Vaspuragan dynasty, today has a dense urban population of mainly Kurdish speaking communities. The town enjoyed a multilingual education and heritage in Armenian, Kurdish, Farsi, and Arabic until 1915. Aşît is inspired by Stefan Zweig’s final novella The Royal Game (Schachnovelle, 1941)—a psychological thriller in which chess becomes a survival mechanism in the face of fascism.
(From the documenta website)
Venue: Hessisches Landesmuseum
© Stills: Pınar Öğrenci. Repros: Universes in Universe
Part 3 of the photo tour through documenta fifteen. 18 June - 25 September 2022, Kassel, Germany. Artistic Direction: ruangrupa. 67 participants.