24.09.–29.11.2009
Exhibition in the Cabinet

Nilbar Güreş
Unknown Sports – Indoor Exercises

Opening: September 23, 2009, 7 p.m.

Nilbar Güreş exposes the essentialist requirements of authoritarian structures by methodically linking introspection and post-feminist paradigms in theatrical productions. Her thoughts on hegemonial systems are equally concentrated on social structures dominated by paternalism and an increasingly fear-ridden Western perception of Islamic cultural and religious communities and the changes within them. Nicola Hirner

In the video ”Unknown Sports. Indoor exercises I/II/III“ the protagonists line up to undermine the repressive gender-specific rites and practices with athletic poses transferred to a gym setting. Nevertheless, differences between behavioral norms persist. The women drill freedom of movement, while the men actually practice it.

Nilbar Güreş, born 1977 in Istanbul, lives and works in Vienna