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Deniz Unal 'Characters of Control' (2017) Performance view. Courtesy the artist + Almanac, London. Photo: Tom Hall
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Deniz Unal 'Characters of Control' (2017) Performance view. Courtesy the artist + Almanac, London. Photo: Tom Hall
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Deniz Unal 'Characters of Control' (2017) Performance view. Courtesy the artist + Almanac, London. Photo: Tom Hall
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Deniz Unal 'Characters of Control' (2017) Performance view. Courtesy the artist + Almanac, London. Photo: Tom Hall
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Deniz Unal 'Characters of Control' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Almanac, London. Photo: Tom Hall
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Deniz Unal 'Characters of Control' (2017) Performance view. Courtesy the artist + Almanac, London. Photo: Tom Hall
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Deniz Unal 'Characters of Control' (2017) Performance view. Courtesy the artist + Almanac, London. Photo: Tom Hall
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Deniz Unal 'Characters of Control' (2017) Performance view. Courtesy the artist + Almanac, London. Photo: Tom Hall
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Deniz Unal 'Characters of Control' (2017) Performance view. Courtesy the artist + Almanac, London. Photo: Tom Hall
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Deniz Unal 'Characters of Control' (2017) Performance view. Courtesy the artist + Almanac, London. Photo: Tom Hall

Deniz Unal explores levels of power, intimacy + interaction through reading, role play + performance for Characters of Control

, 31 January 2018

Deniz Unal presented solo exhibition Characters of Control at London’s Almanac, which ran November 25 to December 14, 2017.

Accompanying the show was a series of events starting with a reading group looking at plays that explore “control, intimacy and desire” on November 25, a role play workshop on December 2, and a performative event on December 14 featuring Unal, along with Amy Gwatkin and Nadja Voorham.

The press release took the form of an “email to Yoko” where Unal writes of her long-standing focus on illness and how it relates to her current research drawing on BDSM, the dominatrix and “representations pain and power structures.” Through a (non-cliché) framework of “consensual and desired pain,” the work uses the audience-performer dynamic to explore forms of intimacy and interaction.**

 Deniz Unal presented solo exhibition Characters of Control at London’s Almanac which ran November 25 to December 14, 2017.