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The Show of Contemporary Leeches (2015)

“There are two types of leeches, one sucks the black blood and heals and the other sucks the arterial blood and it keeps sucking until dying from it.”

Wise Leech



Although Wise Leech told this hundreds of years ago, the classification that he made is still valid for the contemporary leeches. The general idea about the leeches is that, they are exploiter parasites, as there are less Healer Leeches than Exploiter Leeches. In our era, another classified group has been added to the former two; the leeches that suck the arterial blood while they say they are Healers. As usual, The Union of Contemporary Leeches (UCL) aims to enhance and purify their notorious names in a way.

The Union of Contemporary Leeches



The Show of Contemporary Leeches

“No matter what the disaster that we experience is, to make visible the sufferer to the whole World, keep sucking by making an impression of a responsible artist. Following the way of contemporaries, exploit until you die of sucking. You have witnessed a persecution, excellent! Immediately start making splash. Stick on it, continue from where you find a gap. Say city, woman, minority, majority, child, police, war, no war, young, support, state, life... Whatever, look around you. Whatever feeds you the most, take it. If people realize and questions the fact that you are a leech, tell them that; “I am a leech, I do it to enhance, I suck the black blood, I am a healer.”, by meaning it when you say. Your leech sibling will promote you as you want, do not worry. Your capital siblings will financially support you as well. You are already nothing else in this World order, nobody will question you at all. You will also never have problem feeding yourself, the World is full of issues that you can suck to death, you should show your skills as much as you can before you die of sucking. Display yourself. The ones who do not know what they are looking at, will help you to cover a distance. If somebody realizes, you can always avoid it by saying that nobody understands you.”

Artist Leech



Hüseyin Arıcı

The Works of 'The Show of Contemporary Leeches'

The Show of Contemporary Leeches was also exhibited as part of the Spineless series.


Imprint Information

Oil on modelling clay, installation.
2500 pieces approximately, variable dimensions.
2015
Exhibited at Torun, Ankara in November 2015.



The Show of Contemporary Leeches
The Show of Contemporary Leeches
The Show of Contemporary Leeches




The Show of Contemporary Leeches
The Show of Contemporary Leeches
The Show of Contemporary Leeches




The Show of Contemporary Leeches
The Show of Contemporary Leeches
The Show of Contemporary Leeches
The Show of Contemporary Leeches




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