Alev,Mehtap & Murtaza, 2016, performance, 46 17”, Casa Dell Arte (cda art departmant), Torba, Bodrum, Turkey

I lack the capability of reflecting what lies inside my heart in writing Deprivation comes along with shuddering.

Wash your heart with the written!

Let the evaporated water drops wash away somewhere else

Who knows? Maybe, they will fly over the brilliant sea and reach to the ghost, lost in the rose garden, or they will become the ghost itself,

And after the purification, we whisper: ” remember your childhood dreams…”

“Alev, Mehtap&Murtaza” is a performance focus on childhood dreams related with gender issues at Turkey. End of the 90’s people in Turkey came across the bellydance in many areas like pavyon,casinos, wedding ceremony, new year programs at tv channels,…When I was six years old, I wanted to be bellydancer too like many little girls but unfortunately one of my dream did not come true  until I decided to research history of bellydance and practising their movements’ to create a performance.

“When you were a child, what did you dream you’d become?”

I wanted to be… but I am…