Art und Weise: Antifragile Body

For this edition of , artist Selma Selman will perform a lecture addressed to Omer–a fictional character she has been writing to for years.
The performance centers on Selman reading her CV aloud: her education, residencies, and exhibitions, all offered as proof of a worth that Omer will never quite see. It is the kind of recounting you do for someone who makes you feel like nothing is ever enough. Alongside this, Selman will guide the audience through a selection of her works–pieces with strong narratives that sit close to the Dear Omer writings. Together, they offer a window into the textual practice that has run through her work for over a decade, where language becomes both the wound and the way through it.
The evening closes with a Q&A, inviting the audience to go deeper into Selman's practice–to ask not just about the work, but about the choices, the obsessions, and what it means to keep addressing someone who never writes back.

Selma Selman

Selma Selman (b. 1991) is a visual and performance artist from Bosnia and Herzegovina of Romani origin. Her multidisciplinary practice includes performance, video, painting, and installation, often rooted in autobiographical narratives that confront social injustice, gender-based violence, and systemic discrimination.
Her works have been exhibited at documenta fifteen, the Venice Biennale, Autostrada Biennale, Manifesta 14, Gropius Bau, Stedelijk Museum, Schirn Kunsthalle, MoMA PS1, Istanbul Biennial. Selman is also the founder of the foundation Get the Heck to School, which supports Roma girls facing poverty and marginalisation.

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