no title should frame this work ​

Installation: syllable boards, embroidered fabric, one channel video, two channel audio,17:24 min ​

‘no title should frame this work’ captures a moment that should never have existed. The work moves inside and through a second-grade lesson held within the German schooling landscape. What’s shifting, what’s in motion, is the imagination—bent toward emancipation yet twisted in form.

The work—a video piece, syllable boards, embroidered fabric—unfolds as a dialogue, embodying education and its complicity. The video consists of three chapters: the first give insight of (a) Murat’s story; the second presents several voices—children, a teacher, and a literature scholar, reflecting on the text; the third depicts a classroom, contemplating scenarios within the educational environment.

The syllable boards, adapted from a teaching tool, articulate sentences drawn from the lesson. The embroidered fabric illustrates the lesson’s Murat grounding and getting out of the lesson’s framing. Through its layered approach, the work acts as a refusal to the corrupted imagination.