Şimdi anlatınca, ceset suyunun suratıma sıçrayan noktaları yanıyor. Israrla ceset diyorum, evet; ölü bir at, cesetti. Küvetimde parçalarına ayrılmış bir biçimde yatıyordu. Sırayla parçalar, parkenin üzerine serdiğim siyah çöp poşetlerinin üzerine dizildiler. Artık bir arkeolojik kazıdan kalıntılar gibi görünüyorlardı. Hemen bok var gibi fotoğraflarını çektim. Şimdi de ele geçirilmiş mühimmata dönüşmüşlerdi; irili ufaklı mermiler, el bombaları, tabancalar ve kalaşnikoflar.
Olduğumun ve varacağımın resmi;
deklanşöre basan parmağın kıkırdağı, pelvisi fırçalayan kemikler yığını…
Bunları yazarken Chicha Libre’nin Sonido Amazonico albümünü dinledim. Atölyede soba yanıyordu. Nisan’ın 7’siydi ve hava kış gibi soğuktu.
Sevil Tunaboylu – AKLIMDA
20 Mayıs – 27 Haziran 2015
SANATORIUM
Açılış: 20 Mayıs, 18:30
Before I began, I steeped the bones in warm water with vinegar. Then I added some bleach. In the meantime I cooked spaghetti. I swiftly swallowed up my pasta with garlic tomato sauce. And I thought: “There’s a dead horse in the bathtub, and my stomach couldn’t care less”. Then I drank a cup of coffee. When I had nothing left to waste my time on, I rolled up my sleeves. I put on my lemon-scented pink gloves and the apron Gümüş gave me. A while later, I looked for something like a mask, but couldn’t find anything suitable. Then I remembered what you said yesterday when I persistently wanted to learn the time of the island ferry: “You love playing it safe!” but I forgot about the mask, how about that?
Now as I recount this, the places where the corpse water splashed on my face are burning. I insist on calling it a corpse, yes; a dead horse, it was a corpse. It lay in my bathtub, torn into parts. The parts were then lined up on the black bin bags I spread out on the floor. Now they looked like remains from an archaeological excavation. I immediately took photographs of them as if it was a great deal. This time they had turned into seized ammunition; bullets large and small, hand grenades, pistols and Kalashnikovs.
A picture of what I am and what I will become;
the cartilage of the finger pressing down on the shutter button, a heap of bones brushing the pelvis…
I listened to Chicha Libre’s album Sonido Amazonico as I wrote this. The stove was burning in the studio. It was the 7th of April, and it was cold like winter outside.
Sevil Tunaboylu, (b. 1982, Istanbul) received a BA in Painting from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. Mtaär Artist Initiative was established by Sevil Tunaboylu and co-founder Erkin Gören in Kadıköy / Moda in 2009, which hosted 13 exhibitions both national and international exhibitions between May 2009- June 2010. Some of these are : “No Exclusive Quarters For Families”,”Escape From the Civilization” and “Local Illustrators”. Her first solo exhibition was ‘I Watched It As It Disappeared On the Horizon’ at SANATORIUM in 2012. In addition to these, her works were selected to various group exhibitions since 2003. Some of the major exhibitions Tunaboylu participated in are “Do Not Ask Why” Hafriyat Karaköy (2008), “Where the Fire Has Struck” Depo (2011), “Soft City” AlanIstanbul (2011), “Uncanny Games” PG Art Gallery (2011), “Distance and Contact” Baksı Museum (2012) and “Fictions and Dissensions” 3rd Çanakkale Biennial. Tunaboylu lives and works in Istanbul.
Sevil Tunaboylu – ‘IN MY MIND’
20 May – 27 June 2015
SANATORIUM
Opening cocktail: 20 May, 18:30

