MAGIC REALISM · 2023
The Stress of the Whole World
Installation · Mediations Biennale, Feshane, Istanbul · 2023
A globe built from stress balls, each one barcoded. The barcode is the point: it marks the moment a person stops being counted as a person and starts being counted as a consumer, placed inside an economic system.
The number of balls asks you to take in the scale of it; the shape of the world says the pressure is global. Each ball holds one person’s feeling, and together they hold the social stress produced by a culture of consumption.
Shown in the 10th Asia-Europe Mediations Biennale, “I am another you / You are another me”, 31 October — 11 December 2023.
- Concept, installation
- Ecem Dilan Köse
- Curators
- Beral Madra, Lütfi Şen, Marianne Wagner
- Exhibition
- Mediations Biennale 2023
- Venue
- Feshane, Istanbul
