“ Your Worst Friend” is an exhibition consisting of five sculptures, a video installation, and two publications, delving into quasi-phenomenological questions: Who do we want to be friends with? How do past experiences (namely from childhood) shape our definition of an intimate relationship? And how do we part ways with each other? Your Worst Friend explores aspects of friendship that conventionally have negative connotations such as resentment, envy, and rage. For this project, I propose a narrative on the reemergence of a forgotten imaginary friend from childhood, a white Turkish-American unicorn called Jonathan Hüsnü, who knows everything about the protagonist, including things one prefers not to be reminded of.
The publication related to the topics covered in the exhibition, “At Your Worst,” was formed with contributions from Aslı Seven, Gülce Özkara, Nihan Somay, and Zeynep Öz, in addition to the story of Jonathan Hüsnü. The second publication in the exhibition, “LOT,” is the narrative I worked on during the residency process at Artistes en résidence in the years 2020-2021.
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