Erdem Taşdelen, detail from Untitled (from A Minaret for the General’s Wife), 2019. Framed inkjet print. Courtesy the artist.
Mercer Union
1286 Bloor Street West
Toronto, Ontario
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Mercer Union and SAVAC
In “A Minaret for the General’s Wife,” the Kėdainiai Minaret becomes a metaphor for that peculiar and potent feeling of being corporeally out of place, for structures built in locations where they seemingly don’t belong—in other words; displacement, appropriation, and extractivism.
