TURKEY

Homo Scylla, 2022. Five-channel video collages, loop.

Yagcioglu and Uster speculate on the evolution of Homo-Sapiens into Homo-Scylla through symbiogenesis with certain bacteria. 'Scylla' which means 'modified' in ancient Greek, also denotes a monster in Greek mythology. Taking the evolutionary theories of biologist Lynn Margulis as their point of departure, the duo will deconstruct 'human-being' — the biological image of sovereignty — literally down to its micro-components. By examining the behaviour, social coordination and cooperation amongst bacteria, they fashion new narratives of symbiogenesis, in which humans and bacteria metabolise each other to form hybrid organisms entangled with their landscape. Homo Scylla reviews our anthropocentric colonisings, gesturing towards a paradigm of multimodal and mutualistic growth