Aykan Safoğlu

When Judith Butler, a prominent contemporary gender theoretician, declined the “Berlin Pride Award” in 2010 her subsequent public statement intensified the ongoing debates around the political conflicts of the gay and lesbian scene in Germany. By bringing together visual material, press clippings on the controversies and facts borrowed from cultural history, Safoğlu’s video work traces many motifs that are central to these debates, such as capitalist conformity, racism, sex policies and “homonationalism”.