IS THE POT MY INTERCOLUTOR / MUHATABIM TENCERE MI BENIM?

Imalat-hane (click here to view website)

Nilufer, Bursa, Turkiye

2024

This workshop hosts curious, responsive, and knowledgeable kids. The children communicate directly with the artist’s work this week, experimenting with creating natural paints with vegetables and fruits and depicting their dream recipes on paper through tonal exercises.

After the exhibition tour, participants move to the designated area for the workshop and begin discussing and contemplating the colors of fruits and vegetables. Later, the fruits selecte are sliced in a controlled manner with the children. The sliced vegetables and fruits are placed in pots and boiled. During this process, sheets of painting paper are cut or folded into desired dimensions for each participant, creating individual workspaces similar to origami. Once the natural paint’s consistencies are adjusted, they are distributed equally among the participants.

After distribution, participants start drawing on the papers they prepared using natural paint to illustrate how their recipes look, along with ingredient lists and preparation steps.