Stabbing the River
2019/2025, film, duration 2’24”, Super 8 colour 4:3, collaboration with Célia Hay, sound by Sophie Oetinger
A quest with an irrational end: stabbing a river. An oneiric gesture towards the landscape captured by the river Seyhan, in Adana. Here, the act of stabbing repeated towards the exhaustion of the subject (the river, or the stabber?), is declinated through an assemblage layering the traces of those strokes. The whole body is engaged in a very physical gesture, the repeated stabbing of a constantly renewed flow, a romantic duel with Nature towards a vain exploit. (Text: Célia Hay)
This work was produced in collaboration with Célia Hay during the residency Every Me curated by Mustafa Boğa, in Adana.