The guests of the 6th Friday Talks were artist Canan Şenol and Sevim Şahin, a nurse at the Gülsuyu Health Center.
Artist and feminist activist Canan Şenol lives and works in Istanbul. Working with various mediums such as video, installation, photography, painting and performance, Canan Şenol examines gender in patriarchy within the context of physical education and biopolitics.
Living in the neighborhood and working in the Gülsuyu Health Center for many years, Sevim Şahin talked about her experiences with the women in the neighborhood about “being a woman in Gülsüyü-Gülensu”. For her work Sevim Şahin has gone from door to door in the neighborhood doing health surveys and at one period in addition to her job she also volunteered her services in the slums located next to the health clinic.
