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Join us on December 20th for the Background Evening, hosted by Baha Görkem Yalım, with an hour-long performance offered in the company of the generous friendship and care of artists Mazen Al Ashkar and Nagham Abu Assaf. For every solo exhibition at 1646, the artist is asked to informally share with our audience the thinking, inspiration and motivations behind their works and exhibition, in an event we call Background Evening.
The performance takes place in the subversive sleep of the exhibition. It looks at silence as an agreement, a social contract, in accord with how Mulch Sleep reframes emptiness as a thing that can hold the familiar and the strange together. Beauty as the indicator that something is not quite right is an invitation to sit together in the light and in the dark, share silence, share tea, and be together while not waking the exhibition from its sleep. The performance follows the subversive understanding of beauty expressed in Eka Kurniawan’s “Man Tiger”, “Beauty is a Wound”, and Shola von Reinhold’s “Lote”, unsurprisingly three novels. What does beauty mean when it makes an apparition in unlikely places, in places of oppression?
The door opens at 19:00, and the performance starts at 19:30.
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(10am – 6pm Mon – Fri)
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Thursday: 13:00 – 21:00
Friday: 13:00 – 18:00
Saturday: 13:00 – 18:00
Sunday: 13:00 – 18:00
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Easter (Sun 20-4-2025): Closed
Pentecost (Sun 8-6-2025): Closed
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