Who remembers the women that used to pick the greens in the fi elds where no one sowed the seeds, or watered them, or defi ned their borders by putting up fences? Gleaners, Dreams and Greens fi lls the absence of ‘aşefçi’ women at the bazaar named after them with a polyphonic whisper choir. Hevsel Gardens where ‘aşefçi’s used to pick herbs shed light on the history of the marketplace became invisible in time.
Who remembers the women that used to pick the greens in the fi elds where no one sowed the seeds, or watered them, or defi ned their borders by putting up fences? Gleaners, Dreams and Greens fi lls the absence of ‘aşefçi’ women at the bazaar named after them with a polyphonic whisper choir. Hevsel Gardens where ‘aşefçi’s used to pick herbs shed light on the history of the marketplace became invisible in time.
Zelal Sadak
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