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The exhibition Swaying the Current brings together works by Alpin Arda Bağcık, Aziza Kadyri, İz Öztat, Sandra del Pilar, Neriman Polat, Sim Chi Yin and Cengiz Tekin – artists who go in quest of the history surrounding their origins, whether by reconstructing it on the basis of surviving diaries, photographs, textiles, and other personal objects or by imagining their unknown ancestors. In so doing, they create counter-narratives to official discourses, which always serve the interests of the powerful. The artists take various approaches, such as that of critical fabulation: They integrate …