Ausstellungsrundgang: Melike Kara – Whispers

In the organizer's words:

The solo exhibition Whispers by Melike Kara is part of the 9th Triennial of Photography Hamburg. She understands photography not as a static image, but as a circulating, changing medium of memory, identity and transformation. For the Kunsthaus Hamburg, the artist has developed an expansive installation in which she burns photographs from her own archive for the first time and transfers them into the space as ashes. What remains are traces - fragments of images that elude fixation. Based on Melike Kara's longstanding engagement with her Kurdish heritage, the exhibition focuses on belonging and change. Visitors enter a fragile garden: paintings cover the floor, images made from coffee grounds permeate the space like sedimented traces of the past. Plants grow in individual areas and water collects in basins. This creates a sensual space that invites visitors to think of identity as something that is constantly changing.

In a dialogical tour, curator Anna Nowak provides an insight into the contents of the exhibition.