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The Scar From September 11 to December 18, 2020

© Noorafshan Mirza & Brad Butler, The Scar (2018). Installation view of the exhibition Dazibao, 2020. Photo: Marilou Crispin.

© Noorafshan Mirza & Brad Butler, The Scar (2018). Installation view of the exhibition Dazibao, 2020. Photo: Marilou Crispin.

© Noorafshan Mirza & Brad Butler, The Scar (2018). Installation view of the exhibition Dazibao, 2020. Photo: Marilou Crispin.

© Noorafshan Mirza & Brad Butler, The Scar (2018). Installation view of the exhibition Dazibao, 2020. Photo: Marilou Crispin.

© Noorafshan Mirza & Brad Butler, The Scar (2018). Installation view of the exhibition Dazibao, 2020. Photo: Marilou Crispin.

© Noorafshan Mirza & Brad Butler, The Scar (2018). Installation view of the exhibition Dazibao, 2020. Photo: Marilou Crispin.

© Noorafshan Mirza & Brad Butler, The Scar (2018). Installation view of the exhibition Dazibao, 2020. Photo: Marilou Crispin.

© Noorafshan Mirza & Brad Butler, The Scar (2018). Installation view of the exhibition Dazibao, 2020. Photo: Marilou Crispin.

© Noorafshan Mirza & Brad Butler, The Scar (2018). Installation view of the exhibition Dazibao, 2020. Photo: Marilou Crispin.

© Noorafshan Mirza & Brad Butler, The Scar (2018). Installation view of the exhibition Dazibao, 2020. Photo: Marilou Crispin.

© Noorafshan Mirza & Brad Butler, The Scar (2018). Installation view of the exhibition Dazibao, 2020. Photo: Marilou Crispin.

© Noorafshan Mirza & Brad Butler, The Scar (2018). Installation view of the exhibition Dazibao, 2020. Photo: Marilou Crispin.

© Noorafshan Mirza & Brad Butler, The Scar (2018). Installation view of the exhibition Dazibao, 2020. Photo: Marilou Crispin.

© Noorafshan Mirza & Brad Butler, The Scar (2018). Installation view of the exhibition Dazibao, 2020. Photo: Marilou Crispin.

© Noorafshan Mirza & Brad Butler, The Scar (2018). Installation view of the exhibition Dazibao, 2020. Photo: Marilou Crispin.

© Noorafshan Mirza & Brad Butler, The Scar (2018). Installation view of the exhibition Dazibao, 2020. Photo: Marilou Crispin.

© Noorafshan Mirza & Brad Butler, The Scar (2018). Installation view of the exhibition Dazibao, 2020. Photo: Marilou Crispin.

© Noorafshan Mirza & Brad Butler, The Scar (2018). Installation view of the exhibition Dazibao, 2020. Photo: Marilou Crispin.

© Noorafshan Mirza & Brad Butler, The Scar (2018). Installation view of the exhibition Dazibao, 2020. Photo: Marilou Crispin.

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Current reading of the artists — Current reading of the artists

By co-author of The Scar’s script — By co-author of The Scar’s script

Crucial influence on The Scar — Crucial influence on The Scar

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Further readings — Further readings

Past work: Hold Your Ground

Real events: The ‘Lady in Red’In several scenes of The Scar, a woman dressed in red appears to perform a series of actions, including nailing her dress to a tree.This performance was inspired by Ceyda Sungur, an academic in Istanbul who, in 2013, be…

Further readings — Further readings

Further readings — Further readings

Past work: The Unreliable Narrator

Further readings — Further readings

Past work: Museum of Non Participation — Past work: Museum of Non Participation

Real events: Saturday MothersEvery Saturday since 1995, a small group of mothers have gathered in Istanbul’s Galatasaray Square to sit vigil for family members who were forcibly disappeared during the peak of the Kurdish conflict in Turkey. What sta…

Real events: The Susurluk scandalIn the first two chapters of The Scar, four characters are driving along the highway at night in a black Mercedes Benz. This scene, which forms the premise of the film, is based on what is known as the Susurluk scand…

Past work: Deep State