Whisper Down the Lane

In the experimental and communicative exhibition format Whisper Down the Lane, the roles and functions of hosting and being hosted become fluid. In line with the eponymous children’s game in which information is passed on in a whisper, the exhibiting artists themselves choose the next person. Whisper Down the Lane is a process-orientated project in which the Kunsthaus transfers part of the curatorial responsibility to the artists themselves, with the aim of creating alternative institutional modes of access and rendering local network structures visible both in terms of personal ties and with regard to artistic approaches.

Altay Tuz, being the third artist in the series, invited by Fritz Lehmann, is presenting his large-format photograph Untitled (Waiting Room). His practice deals with spaces as carriers of social and cultural meaning. The work shown at Kunsthaus foyer depicts a leather armchair in the waiting room of a doctor’s office in Hamburg and is part of a series that deals with various places of waiting – experienced as a threshold state in which the promise of change goes hand in hand with stagnation. Besides the material aesthetics of such places, Altay Tuz is interested in the practice of waiting both as a universal human experience and in relation to his own reality as an artist and non-EU citizen in Germany.