Dialogue (YAZ Publications Activation)
Taloi Havini (artist); Zeynep Öz (independent curator and Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry co-curator)
Expanding on the drawing Taloi Havini contributed to YAZ Publications, which referenced her work Beroana (shell money), this conversation contemplates the ways in which currency and assumptions of kinship perform over time. Given that kinship systems are based on trust, what does this look like? Havini's research and her own production of 'counterfeit' editions of artworks for the public display of shell money speak to current ideas surrounding Beroana and the ways in which the (de)contextualisation of cultural artefacts and their appropriation might shift their meaning.