GALLERY WEEKEND
BERLIN
2 – 4 May
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Installation view, 'the state I am in', curated by Elisa R. Linn and Lennart Wolff, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, 2022

Leyla Yenirce
Being Strong is Hard, 2021
Single-channel video and sound installation, color, 4:13 min
Dimensions variable
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
B-LYENIRCE-.22-0001
A fast-paced flow of images edited from what was gathered online or made by the artist - images of Kurdish female fighters, activists and journalists, pixelated landscapes, animated phoenixes, and...
A fast-paced flow of images edited from what was gathered online or made by the artist - images of Kurdish female fighters, activists and journalists, pixelated landscapes, animated phoenixes, and oil paintings - is sequenced to an electronic beat. Fusing stark opposites - music-video, a moving-image tribute to those killed or still-fighting, a slideshow of aesthetics of resistance - for those underrepresented or bore from sovereignty and self-determination. In a moment of intensified information or rather image warfare where war is spectated or “consumed” over TikTok, images create cohesion, purpose, and legitimacy for particular struggles and sites of a conflict. The video work, which Leyla Yenirce (*1992) describes as an “image machine”, reunites concepts of solidarity and resistance.
Exhibitions
International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2024
Video Digest by Videonale and IMAI – Inter Media Art Institute, Moltkerei Werkstatt Köln, 2023
the state I am in, curated by Elisa R. Linn and Lennart Wolff, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, 2022
Leyla Yenirce - Being Strong is Hard, Digitalprojekte, Kunstverein Hamburg, 2021