MANİFESTO

"Do not leave gaps between 'yourself' and 'you.'"

-Cem Mumcu

Cem always asks, "How much does your home resemble you?" Have you ever truly pondered the answer to this question? Is that chair you're sitting in a reflection of yourself? Is that rug, occasionally catching your eye, really you? The solid fruit juicer you lifted to the top of the kitchen cabinets and never used... is that you? Are you the robotic vacuum you eagerly purchased? And what about your clothing? How many times have you said, "What I actually want is quite simple, but I can't seem to find it" while wandering through the aisles? Or how many times has the phrase "I really have nothing to wear" echoed in your mind in front of a wardrobe? How much space is there between yourself and 'you'? In your home, your clothes, your food, your drinks, the places you visit, your desk, your plants... Come, let's close those gaps now.

Cem said in his first art exhibition, "I am not what you think. I am none of the things you think. I am not a box either." We know. You are not as people perceive you. You are none of the things they think. You are not a box. Perhaps, in another language, you would say "I'm not" and might even want to put a slash over the letter 'I.' We, for you, for us, for all of us, have made that mark now. We opened a wound in the 'I' representing the self, just like a stigmata. Because together, we are not what people think. We are a 'thought.' That's why we made a change within that stigma. We became Sthinkma. To eliminate the gap between ourselves and ourselves.

Yes. Even on a T-shirt. Because what we wear is also us. What we wear is who we are.