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Michele Gabriele, 'TurboPizza (Best and Worst of me)' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + OJ Art Space, Istanbul.
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Michele Gabriele, 'TurboPizza (Best and Worst of me)' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + OJ Art Space, Istanbul.
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Michele Gabriele, 'Cinghialini1 (The Right Distance)' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + OJ Art Space, Istanbul.
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Monia Ben Hamouda, 'Please Wake Up Subtitle' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + OJ Art Space, Istanbul.
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Monia Ben Hamouda + Michele Gabriele, 'TORCHES (It won't only kill you, it will hurt the whole time you're dying)' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + OJ Art Space, Istanbul.
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Monia Ben Hamouda + Michele Gabriele,  It won't only kill you, it will hurt the whole time you're dying (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + OJ Art Space, Istanbul.
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Monia Ben Hamouda, 'Holding Hands as a Cup' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + OJ Art Space, Istanbul.
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Monia Ben Hamouda, 'Dog II' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + OJ Art Space, Istanbul.
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Monia Ben Hamouda, 'Hunter IV' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + OJ Art Space, Istanbul.
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Monia Ben Hamouda, 'Still Broken' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + OJ Art Space, Istanbul.
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Monia Ben Hamouda, 'Still Broken' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + OJ Art Space, Istanbul.
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Monia Ben Hamouda, 'Turn Bomb Craters into Swimming Pools' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + OJ Art Space, Istanbul.
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Monia Ben Hamouda + Michele Gabriele’s It won’t only kill you, it will hurt the whole time you’re dying at OJ

, 15 June 2017
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Monia Ben Hamouda + Michele Gabriele presented It won’t only kill you, it will hurt the whole time you’re dying exhibition at Istanbul’s OJ Art Space, which opened May 24 to June 10.

Monia Ben Hamouda, ‘Dog II’ (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + OJ Space, Istanbul.

The two-person show presents an installation of re-worked objects and sculptural assemblage. Rather than presenting us with the curatorial premise, the press includes a text that reads:

I’m so confused that I don’t even know if you want me to hug you or you want me to die.
Everyone is running away from that disaster, yet I cannot do it and I have to run to you.
If I only have one chance, one, I have to try to save you.
Or at least see if you are there. 

In addition, the work is accompanied by a special text/poem contribution from Andrew Birk, with an excerpt that reads, “Our moment might soon be over, I want to lose myself forever in a sublime haze of loud distracting life-affirming anything, A shaky pistol emerging from a shadow, Dogs disappear out windows…” **

Monia Ben Hamouda and Michele Gabriele’s It won’t only kill you, it will hurt the whole time you’re dying at Istanbul’s OJ Art Space ran May 24 to June 10, 2017. 

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'It won't only kill you Andrew Birk it will hurt the whole time you're dying' Michele Gabriele Monia Ben Hamouda OJ Art Space Orange Juice
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