Caution Wet Paint
LISTE21 I Basel I 2016 I presented by Dr. Kuckucks Labrador I photo: Philippe Olza
Caution! Wet Paint is a performance about the challenges of being a migrant. IPek paints the Turkish flag first. Then, the Hungarian flag right onto the first one. At last, she paints the Swiss flag up onto both. Although she paints rather slowly during the performance, the time is not enough for the colours to dry. That is how the paint mingles and as a result, all the red turns into brownish and the white looks dirty.
IPek was born in Istanbul to a Bosnian-Macedonian father whose family had migrated from the Balkans to Turkey when he was a toddler. In IPek`s early childhood she and her mother moved to Hungary; to her mother’s homeland. Later she left Hungary for Switzerland.