Özgür Atlagan

At this endless night when the sun does not come up, and the darkness prevailed, Woman and Man search for a solution in leaving their normal life, property, and civilization as we know it, and going to nature. They depart and leave their friends after a dinner which has less excitement than before to test their hope about social revival.

Kars Gravyer, Gruyère cheese looks like Swiss Emmentaler. But it is much more than that. Based on a recipe that traveled more than a hundred years ago with Swiss migrants to Eastern Anatolia, it gained its own taste and story in the local circumstances. This story is traced through observing routines of Gravyer Production, historical letters and a failed industrial venture.

We Are Not Familiar With a Generation That Has No Understanding of Sadness constructs a narrative around the artists’ fundamental research on the mimeograph. By using significant political texts and transcripts from history as a reference point, against this historical background, they reflect upon the contemporary situation in Türkiye. In affinity with previous generations, who are saddened by the perished dreams and ideals, they search for agency under despotism—attempting to negotiate their elusive position between two extremes of utopian escapism and revolutionary struggle as recourse to estrangement.