Galata
(Istanbul Biennial 2022)
I've started my journey, well, two and a half decades ago to be precise, since then, keep walking, and still walking, I am coming across some things that thrown at me through the trip, some words of wisdom, or some utterly ridiculous gibberish, some of whom have fame, some of them are just a guy around the corner, everyone just shouting and spitting at the same time, they trying to convince me some sort of belief.
Let's hear them out.
If you don't know what you're looking for, keep looking,
they say
Even though in the darkest times, just believe in yourself,
they say
Photography is truth,
they say
Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life,
they say
All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl,
they say
You exist only in what you do,
they say
Pen and a page of paper is enough to be a filmmaker,
they say
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything,
they say
Those who do not weep, do not see,
they say
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible,
they say
One man's trash is another man's treasure,
they say
Sovereignty is not given, it is taken,
they say
Happiness is only real when shared,
they say
You are what you wear,
they say
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live,
they say
I'm just a little bit confused.
What do you say honey?
