Artist Commissions in Swap Market Windows from June - Oct 2020
Over the next few months different artists will be creating work for the Swap Market windows on Victoria Road.
Look out for artwork by Magpie, Deniz Uster, Ailie Rutherford, Rumpus Room Young Activists and Nat Walpole.
For more information, contact: events@swapmarket.info or visit the Swap Market blog.
The current work, by depicts the female Mesopotamian folk creature, Shahmaran, who is half woman and half snake. Learn more about it in the Swap Market blog. Created by Turkish interdisciplinary artist, Deniz Uster, the image is accompanied by a short poem by Uster, written in four languages spoken in Mesopotamia; Turkish, Kurdish, Farsi and Arabic as well as the English version ascribed on the opposite window:
Shahmaran was her name, she was the queen of snakes.
She was the cure, the death, and the wisdom.
She was many, and her flesh was power.
Man betrayed her, but she became omnipresent.
Şahmaran’dı adı, yılanların şahıydı.
اوهمدرمانبودوهممرگوهم ِخَرد
كانتكثيرةًوكانلحُمها ُسلطًة
êr pê re xayîn derket lê ew li ser xwe ma û li her derê
