
As Much as I Can
Performative Embroidery
Video & Sound
Holygiggle
2025
Single Channel Video
01:00 (loop)
Elimden Geldiği Kadar (As Much As I Can) explores the tension between the desire to express oneself and the physical, social, and emotional limits that shape this process.
The work approaches embroidery not as a craft practice, but as a repetitive gesture, a mode of thinking, and a method of recording. The body is not only represented; it also becomes the surface through which the work is produced.
Throughout the video, repeated interventions on the hand reveal the traces left by the effort to communicate and make oneself heard. Movement, repetition, and persistence become carriers of experiences that resist language.
Rather than focusing solely on experience itself, Elimden Geldiği Kadar also examines the responses given to it. Embroidery becomes a method of recording inadequate solutions, deferred responsibilities, and recurring silences. The work reflects on the point at which ethical responsibility is replaced by rhetoric, revealing parallels between the languages of art, institutions, and power.






