Also Your Wound, Rosa: Pelin Uran

Also your wound, Rosa is in two parts: the exhibition that runs from September 15 to October 24, 2022 at Kurtuluş Greek Primary School, İstanbul; and the book published by Minerva Projects.

This volume brings together writings on the concept of vulnerability by Ozgur Demirci, Alev Ersan, Gamze Hakverdi, Gordon Hall, Johanna Hedva, Adelita Husni-Bey, Amal Kenawy, Lata Mani and Nicholas Grandi, Jang Minseung, and Gregory Whitehead. The included artists maintain writing practices alongside their visual art practices. Some of the texts are newly commissioned and some are already existing. The writings range from searches for the voice of vulnerability, to feminist practices that foreground creating community based on care, vulnerability, interdependency, and responsibility to the other, to selected haikus and an undelivered letter written to a deceased artist, to a curator’s own explorations of poetic connotations within her woundscape.

Editor Pelin Uran is an Istanbul-based curator. She has worked at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin and recently curated We Do not Know This To Be So in Istanbul.

The volume is translated, including work by Elif Ersavci who has translated works of writers including John Steinbeck, Toni Morrisson, J.G. Ballard, Terry Eagleton, Ray Bradbury, Neil Gaiman, Roald Dahl and Arthur Conan Doyle.

Graphic designer Ali Cindoruk is responsible for the outlook of the book.