The Squeaky Wheel will host a Public Reception for Let Me Remember by belit saÄŸ, on display through March 23.

Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center presents Let Me Remember, the first solo exhibition of artist and videoactivist belit saÄŸ (Netherlands/Turkey) in North America. Comprised of five new video installations, Let Me Remember functions as an investigation into the state of being racialized in Europe, taking a series of brutal murders by the German National Socialist Underground (NSU) as its context. The NSU was a terror group that killed ten people and planted bombs in migrant neighborhoods between 2000–2008. German media reports at the time ignored the racial motivations of their violence. belit saÄŸ's work explores how media imagery can render the visibility (and invisibility) of personhood in a personal and essayistic form. The works in Let Me Remember bring together archival footage of the NSU's victims, images of objects from the crime scenes, and transcripts of the trials made by local activist groups to ask questions on how white supremacy and whiteness in a European context affect and change narratives. Squeaky Wheel is proud to present the first North American exhibition of this emerging artist, and bring to the public the acuity with which saÄŸ questions the role of media.

[source: Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center website, 2018-Jan-15]