Throughout the year, LI-MA presents programmes of media and video art from its own collection and with guest curators – all at LAB111, where LI-MA is located. The programmes compiled by a guest curator usually focus on a specific theme. For the upcoming edition, artist belit sağ delves into LI-MA's collection and puts together their personal programme. As a filmmaker and artist, sağ reflects on how (media) images affect us personally and socially, as well as on how archives organize and represent histories. sağ will bring together a screening programme, Remembering Otherwise, where filmmakers and artists work with the excess and the unarchivable memories. In the selected films, smell, touch, gossip, sonic resonances, tactility, and nonlinear timelines are foregrounded as relevant ways to connect with the historical. As part of the selection programme, she will show their work-in-progress short film with the same name as the programme, Remembering Otherwise.

Check out works by belit sağ that are part of the LI-MA collection here:

what remains, 2018 
cut-out, 2018
Kirk kere söylersen... / If you say it forty times..., 2017
disruption (aksama), 2016
grain, 2016
Ayhan and Me, 2016
my camera seems to recognize people, 2015
Sept. Oct. 2015, Cizre, 2015
and the image gazes back, 2014

About the artist

belit sağ (1980, Nazilli-Turkey, she/they) studied mathematics in Ankara and audiovisual arts in Amsterdam.Her moving image practice is rooted in video-activist groups she co-founded in Turkey. They were an artist in residence at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (2014/2015, Amsterdam) and International Studio and Curatorial Program (2016 and 2019, New York City). Her research-based artistic practice focuses on archival visual representations of political violence and female, queer, and migrant solidarities.

Thumbnail and header image: belit sağ, what remains, 2018