Installation Distant Voices, Still Lives 12 framed embroidery works and a sound piece (35’’) commissioned by Coventry Biennial and supported by SAHA.
in the fifth Coventry Biennial, Obsessions, Possessions, which will take place across Coventry and Warwickshire from 3 October 2025 to 25 January 2026. Extract from the text by Mine Kaplangı: In Distant Voices, Still Lives, Mustafa Boga presents an intimate yet critically engaged exploration of memory, identity, and queer temporality through the lens of a self-described queer media archaeologist. The title, which also appears in Terence Davies’ celebrated film, is used here as an evocation of echo, stillness, and lived experience, framing Boga’s meditation on the interplay between frozen images and the life that once surrounded them.
“Distant Voices” signals the resonance of family, memory, and queer identity as they travel across time and space, particularly within non-Western and non-institutional histories. “Still Lives” speaks to Boga’s embroidered screenshots, each a frozen frame that nonetheless vibrates with the quiet vitality of memory, ritual, camp, and the subtle gestures that shape the everyday.
February 21, 2019
