Tiergarten, Berlin
Didem Pekün
At Night, on Faultlines
Between Bridges Residency SpaceBetween Bridges is thrilled to prsent an exhibition by Didem Pekün, the recipient of the third Between Bridges Residency: At Night, on Faultlinesis a five-screen video installation; it is a performative work that focuses on the question of “home” in Istanbul, and beyond. The many lives that live, endure, persevere and fail in the cities we inhabit—cities that sits on faultlines, both geographically and metaphorically with the weight of the past, as well as the ongoing political, social, economical, and ecological strifes. While several screens make a montage of dancers in different rooms of a house, others reveal Istanbul and its many facet: the sea, the sky, extreme crowd, traffic jam, nighttime—movement. The city is the protagonist of the film. Istanbul is the stage, the home that is cracking. Dancers are the shifting figures that are rotating over the house. Structured in five episodes—dawn, morning, noon, afternoon, night—what cuts through the traffic, the suffocating crowd, the incessant noise, is the dance that persists, transcending barriers. For dance is the embodiment of perpetual motion, and being in movement is being alive. —Didem Pekün