Şener Özmen placed a single image of a holiday travel moment he wished to experience in his recent work “An Overcast Day / Koh Samui”. Mentioning the Thai island of Koh Samui, a holiday destination that draws visitors from around the world, evokes images of a warm and distant land – which the artist chose to visit during the assaults on Diyarbakır in February 2016. The installation refers to moments of crisis and the many years of attacks on the Kurdish population in Turkey, especially in the cities of Diyarbakır, Cizre, and Şırnak.

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