The exhibition Dark World is an interdisciplinary research project by the visual artist Mike Bode and screenwriter Caner Yalçin about the film of the same title.
“Dark World” was written and directed by Metin Erksan and Bedri Rahmi Eyüpoğlu in 1953, it takes place in rural Anatolia and tells the life of the renowned Turkish folk poet Âşık Veysel. Shot in the style of Turkish ‘Neo-realism’ in the town of Ürgüp, it’s intertwined with a melodramatic love story.
The exhibition is realized with the contributions of Türk Tuborg A.Ş., Eureko Sigorta, Jotun, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Institut Français, and the Embassy of Mexico in Türkiye.
