Husband for a Thousand Wives 

​This project aims to examine the ritualized relationships established with traditional land. The study, which investigated the effects of natural, human, economic and socio-cultural factors on land use, combined the data obtained from participant observation and field research with qualitative methods with literature reviews and documented them. This documentation has been transformed into artistic production and installation with a multidisciplinary approach, and the current practices of traditional belief systems have been reinterpreted through these artistic works. In different geographies, the belief in healing through plants and the rituals of this belief have been the focus of the research. Traditional practices blended with plant healing practices and superstitions that have been passed down from ancient Greece to the present day and passed down from generation to generation among the people are discussed. The study, which was built on the narratives and rituals of the village people within the scope of the artist exchange program carried out in Bursa, Misi Village, centered on the ritual of hanging samples taken from male fig trees on female fig trees in order to accelerate biological fertilization. During this ritual, this tradition, performed with the words “One Husband for a Thousand Wives”, shaped the process of the work.

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