COLLABORATIONS · 2025
A Woman’s Battles and Transformations
Visual art for theatre · Moda Sahnesi, Istanbul · 29th Istanbul Theatre Festival · 2025
Visual art for Moda Sahnesi’s staging of Édouard Louis’s A Woman’s Battles and Transformations (Bir Kadının Kavgaları ve Dönüşümleri), directed by Kemal Aydoğan and performed by Onur Ünsal.
Starting from a single photograph of his mother — young, free, happy, taken before marriage and children — Louis traces how she was confined to the house and to unpaid domestic labour for twenty years, and how she finally broke away. Growing up as a gay child in a working-class home in France, he follows her transformation step by step and sets out a narrative of liberation.
The projected visuals — cellular, bubble-like forms that gather, scatter and dissolve behind the performer — give shape to memory, confinement and the desire to change.
- Visual art
- Ecem Dilan Köse
- Visual art assistant
- Barış Yılmaz
- Written by
- Édouard Louis
- Translation
- Ayberk Erkay
- Director
- Kemal Aydoğan
- Performer
- Onur Ünsal
- Set design
- Bengi Günay
- Costume
- pcfg
- Lighting
- İfran Varlı
- Vocal coach
- Damla Pehlevan
- Poster
- İlknur Alparslan
- Photography
- Orçun Kaya
- Festival
- 29th Istanbul Theatre Festival — 25–26 October 2025
