HelloAciziyet

( Aciziyet – is a turkish word, which conveys our situation. Powerlessness,
feebleness, lacking of opportunities, un-attainability -> however the meaning
of this word is not conveyed negative. It means more than frailty,
helplessness, in aptitude – to view the world from the bottom.
It is an emancipated acceptance a circumstance life)

Artist Frankie Adams uses this project to expand her awareness about the meaning of home and displacement, the understanding of one’s roots and belonging with the impact of trauma. This is extremely personal to each individual in this world through the nature of migration, personal and World events. Adams wants to visualize this unconsciousness, by reviewing
related and non-related individuals around her.

More than three generations of Adams’ family have had different experiences, their journeys, their feelings and perceptions of self and others. Adams is exploring her parents’ odyssey, the lost generation of German war children; the impact this had on her and her own narrative; her adopted children have been placed into a new home, with the need to replant their roots and build the feeling of belonging to a place. Though one of the children’s trauma goes much deeper – the experience since conception will have a deep impact on the entire life.

Other close individuals around her have been displaced without physical displacement. All this has an impact on the feeling of home and belonging, hurting our mental health. Adams is pursuing this project to speak out for everyone. In The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard interrogates the meaning of space: intimate and interior, domestic space. His writing provoked Adams tobreassess her first home in sections, as a place of intimacy and memory, arousing different sensations. This allowed her to document spaces with objects, creating miniature narratives sharing glimpses of identity, attachment and memories.