Filmed during two weeks in Seoul in Spring 2021, “The Sleepwalker” is a portrait of a house. The film was made during the artist’s two week quarantine in Korea during the Coronavirus pandemic. The house is a traditional Korean house located in the Bukchon Hanok Village in Seoul. The film appears to show one day at the house but was filmed over fourteen days and nights. The soundtrack is four early recordings of Bellini’s opera “La Sonnambula” - a story of sleep and wakefulness - where the protagonist reveals the truth of her feelings while sleepwalking. The film was made at various random moments during day and night yet the various shots are cut together to create the illusion of logical time despite it being the result of a fractured and fragmented production process. A shot at one point may have been made at 4am followed immediately by one made at 11pm one week later. The resulting film is a record of the disturbance of time resulting from travel, quarantine and isolation.

The Mardin Biennial was first organized in 2010 with the aim of transforming Mardin, Turkey, into a center of contemporary art and bringing new approaches and gains to the region through the language of art.