Merve Morkoç

Humiliation has a number now.
Unemployment is not just an abstract state of waiting, but also a measurable regime of humiliation that crawls into one’s body.This performance is an exposé of the myth that the body is worthy of meaning as long as it is productive, useful, and a participant in a system. It documents the exploitation of body and labor that is not just apparent in the process of production, but also during extended periods of exclusion and waiting forced upon individuals by the economic structure that normalizes the humiliation based on numbers.
May 20, 2026