SAHA supports Tavros for the new projects of Didem Pekün, Marina Papazyan and Larissa Araz as part of the group exhibition entitled Aman Aman between 8 October 2026 – 30 January 2027.

AMAN AMAN is an exhibition and three-month public programme that explores the deeply felt longing, the bittersweet in-between, and the cultures that are born from unstable identities. It centres on the long histories of movement of peoples between Anatolia, Greece, and Germany, but extends further beyond, reaching the shores of the Americas, embracing stories from multiple ethnic and religious communities from the broader region and beyond (underground and from the margins).

Didem Pekün’s new essay-film, Promised You a Miracle, follows an endless journey across land, sea and air towards a miracle that never arrives, while Marina Papazyan’s novella, A Tatavla Gothic, sets literary ambition against the conditions of late Ottoman modernity and its afterlives. Larissa Araz presents two new works. In Hâlimiz Duman (We Are Doomed) (2026), she presents a vinyl record exploring the musical heritage of migrant communities from the Ottoman Empire in New York in the early 20th century. Marika’s Bar (2026), is a neon light installation recreating a fictional logo for the first Café Aman in New York, opened by Marika Papagika on 34th Street.

The exhibition also features works by Vartan Avakian, Cevdet Erek, Vassos Kapantais,Zafos Xagoraris,  and Valinia Svoronou, exploring stories of movement and connection across the Aegean, Anatolia and their diasporas.

Didem Pekün (1978, Istanbul) is an award-winning artist-filmmaker and academic based in London and Istanbul. She works across moving image, text, photography, sound and theory. Both in her education and in her approach as an artist and educator, Didem’s work is characterized by a synthesis of theory and practice. She has made several works that address political violence, displacement, and their myriad intersections. Her films and installations are shown internationally at festivals, museums, and exhibitions.

Marina Papazyan is a writer and artist from Istanbul. They mostly work with video and sound, and write fiction and essays. They have been interested in how monstrousness and disease are represented and intersect, with vampirism and lycanthropy appearing as recurring motifs in their writing. Werewolves, vampires and satyrs take on different roles in exploring queer genders and erotics, set against the contradictory legacies of (post-)Ottoman imperialisms, and the liberation struggles that resist them.

Larissa Araz (Istanbul, 1990) is an artist and founder of Poşe artist-run space in Istanbul, Turkey. She studied Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, NY, USA and Visual Arts at Koç University in Istanbul, TR. She was a recipient of the Prince Claus Seed Award in 2021. Araz focuses on alternative histories, non-human witnesses, and the construction of dominant ideologies through institutional knowledge production.

About Tavros

TAVROS was founded in 2019 and is a leading independent non-profit arts space in Athens whose mission is to create cutting edge cultural programs with social impact. Through exhibitions, learning, screenings, discursive programs, commissions, publications, community outreach, educational & off-site programs, TAVROS amplifies marginalized and unheard voices and tackles complex contemporary social and cultural issues, ranging from the ecological to civic rights to subaltern histories.