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Self in Transit

28 Feb 2020 – 1 Mar 2020

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Fri, 28 Feb
18:00 – 22:00
Sat, 29 Feb
12:00 – 18:00
Sun, 01 Mar
12:00 – 18:00

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  • Nearest Bus Stop: Warspite Road. Busses 177, 161, 180, 472 from Greenwich and North Greenwich
  • Nearest train station: Woolwich Dockyard. Trains regularly from London Bridge
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‘Self in Transit’ is a site specific light and text installation by Tuğba Tirpan. Curated by Mustafa Boğa the exhibition is looking at the ways in which we operate where matters of the mind are still a taboo and how language relates to it.

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‘Self in Transit’ is a site specific light and text installation by Tuğba Tirpan. Curated by Mustafa Boğa the exhibition is looking at the ways in which we operate where matters of the mind are still a taboo and how language relates to it. 

Language is a tool for communication but it can also be unobtrusively oppressive under social norms and social constructs of the time. 

Self in Transit explores where language can operate within a framework of power, institutions and control. 

Sometimes we need to look at things in a ‘different light’. This can enable us to see what might be going on under the facade of daily language and free ourselves from our predefined and sometimes self-imposed limits. 

This intimate and personal work exposes the artist’s own psyche unfiltered as an emancipatory mediatary using language as a subversive tool. This work explores; self policing, shame, cultural hegemony, individualism, psycho-politics, self-exploitation, the myth of *mental health* and other such issues experienced within our neoliberal societies. 

Today’s language and narrative often instills the belief that we are the sole reason of our own unhappiness, depressions, miseries, failures and confusions while concealing the systemic and systematic reasons. 

Let us remember the feminists who were once called ‘hysterical’ and incarcerated or the anti-colonial leaders who were called ‘terrorists’. Let us not only look at the language of the past and to be comfortable in the present but refocus the lens back on ourselves and the society in which we live.

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Mustafa Boğa

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Tugba Tirpan

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