In Commemoration of Stonewall's 40th Anniversary: PRIDE and REBELLION

The rebellion that started in New York's Christopher Street with the song "We are the Stonewall girls/ We wear our hair in curls/ We don't wear underwear/ We show our pubic hairs" continues more visibly in other streets of the world, with other songs.

Entrance level:
Red Nails LGBT Pride Istanbul
Exhibition by Luca Donnini
Curated by Manuela Fugenzi

In Red Nails the body is narrated in the fluidity of gender identities and dwells in the photographic portrait. A political and introspective sensitivity animates these inquiries among identities that are unconscious, denied, painful, enforced, proudly rediscovered: a troublesome quest to move towards impossible exchanges and encounters. Where the act of putting yourself on the line is a prelude to the naked self; to acknowledging and loving what is human in the uncertain, what is divine in abandon.
Manuela Fugenzi

Luca Donnini (1961) lives and works in Rome in his hayloft-studio. The unlimited possibility of the human body is the front and frontier of a battle waged by producing images of insatiable chaos and unfair irony. Artist and set designer, Donnini uses photography to describe the dual process of constructing and deconstructing multiform humanity and its identities, where even the final image can be expanded further into variously usable tactile and visual experiences, beyond the manifest limits of play and obsession.

http://www.lucadonnini.it

2009
Beautiful Maladies - Independent Adult Film Festival of Madrid
Insanely Great - Red Dawn International Women's Festival, Ljubljana

2008
Diverse Normalità - San Calisto Bar - International Photography Festival of Rome
Rear Window - Berlin Fine Art Baumgärtner

2007
Carne Stories - Galleria Fondaco, Rome
Little Body Shop - Tattooing Demon Studio, Rome

Alt Kat:
Ülker Street - Serdar Soydan
Recreating, learning and understanding the Ülker Street experience with newspaper clippings and personal stories.

Top Floor:
Osmosis/Geçişim
What a Man Does - Voltrans Men Initiative
Who doesn't transition - Sinan Göknür

Exhibition Curators

• Manuela Fugenzi

Exhibition Artists

• Lucca Donnini
• Serdar Soydan
• Voltrans Erkek İnsiyatifi
• Sinan Göknur