By Heidi Trautmann …
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Hüseyin Özinal – Fugitive Bodies – Art Exhibition at the ArtRooms, Girne
Once in our lifetime we all come to crossroads where we have to decide how to continue, be it in a physical or intellectual way. Things, events, are thrown in our way, obstacles that force us to rethink our life, our thinking, question life in general, our life and the meaning of it. There are many questions and …somehow only a few answers.
Hüseyin Özinal, a highly sensitive artist and theatre stage designer I have known for
Sketches done in ink, pencil, heavy brushstrokes, images of naked bodies in its ugliness, fat and old, with hanging skin, bodies with scars, transgender bodies, a traumatic experience to do it 3600 times,
The beautiful catalogue carries a note inside the cover page ‘Dedicated to my mother, LGBTI and ‘the others’. There is a text included by Gürgenç Korkmazel, poet and friend, which examines the work from different angles and I
I had thoughts of my own for reasons of my own. The body is a vessel, it can be beautiful if taken care of for a long time, but it will wither like leaves in autumn when everything is said and done. The contents will remain if we have filled the vessel with things that the generations after us regard worthy of keeping. The conclusion would then be to put all heed on the contents and not worry about the vessel.
The exhibition can be visited until 09 December from 14:00 to closing hours of the restaurant The House.