Depo presents Alaca Heyheyler (“The Motley Jitters”) Collective’s exhibition The Women’s Atlas. The exhibition focuses on the collective’s second book, which invites us to look at the experience of womanhood from girlhood to adulthood, in social life, at work, in family life, in relationships and in one’s own body.

Alaca Heyheyler held workshops with women in Bursa and Istanbul for a year in preparation for their second book. With the impressions they gathered from these meetings, Alaca Heyheyler prepared a series of questions divided into seven sections under the titles ‘Our Girlhood’, ‘Adolescence’, ‘Sexuality’, ‘Integrity of Body, Mind and Spirit’, ‘Emotional Relationships and Bonds’, ‘Sisterhood’, ‘Girl Alone at Home, at Work and on the Street’ and collected answers to them online.

Alaca Heyheyler’s second exhibition, The Women’s Atlas, was inspired by the experiences that were shared with them by the women who answered these questions. The exhibition, which aims to bring together and make visible the experiences of women from various places, ages, and methods, will also hold a variety of workshops, talks, meetings, and screenings, transforming Depo’s ground floor into a living and producing studio.

Alaca Heyheyler is a fluid and independent group of artists consisting of Arzu Yayıntaş, Güneş Terkol and Sevil Tunaboylu, who have come together to think collectively and support each other’s journeys as women and artists, while also intermittently materialising their reflections into physical projects. In 2017, the group published their first book Alaca Heyheyler, consisting of interviews with 104 women of different ages and professions on their experiences of the cycles of womanhood, starting with their own birth stories, first periods, PMS, abortion, miscarriage, birth, motherhood and menopause.

More information on the event can be found here.