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As Much as I Can, Performative Embroidery Video and Sound by Ceren Yılmaz

As Much as I Can

Performative Embroidery
Video & Sound

Holygiggle
2025

Single Channel Video
01:00 (loop)

This is not just a metaphor;
I have told it to as many people as I could.
— we have.

The result?
A law–rights–justice attempt that never even reached a conclusion;
the torment of an endless search for solutions.
And the “suggestions” box is right in front of you.

This work stages harassment—made prone to repetition by the cycle of “ignoring–isolating–covering up–impunity” we meet in so-called resolution processes—through personal experience and a performance that pushes bodily limits; it calls the viewer into shared responsibility.

It examines harassment in professional settings through “handwork,” giving the floor to embroidery—needle and thread—that has carried stories across time. The sound composition voices a scenario in which power/interest relations in the professional art world collide with ethics. While exposing the offered answers and “suggestions,” the legal solitude, and social-media “blocks” as evasive strategies that solve nothing, it opens a debate where art grows akin to the spineless rhetoric of those in power.

I say “as much as I can,” because witnessing alone is not enough.
Until these “suggestions” change, these stories will keep being told…

©️ Ceren Yılmaz, 2026 

All images and content belongs to the artist.

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