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Two young people, dressed alike in pink, blue and white, sit gazing at the camera. Before them, a table with bread, olives and oranges. One of them pours red liquid into a glass from a silver teapot.
Merve Sagit, Ritual Study I, 2025.

Merve Sagit

Ritual Study I, 2025

Photograph, archival pigment print (315gsm fine art matte paper)

‘Part of my Olóige series (named after the Irish word for olive), this photograph features Nigerian-Irish twin brothers Dante and Leroy. The work explores duality, liminal identity, domestic memory, the threshold of childhood and adolescence, and gender fluidity. The sitters wear my handmade collars crafted from a stained tablecloth brought from Turkey, cyanotype printed with olive branches and Celtic Tree of Life motifs. Framed by Mediterranean elements, their calm, unyielding gaze bridges my Turkish heritage with Irish life.’

Staidéar Deasghnátha I, 2025

Grianghraf, prionta lí cartlainne (páipéar neamhlonrach mínealaíne 315gsm)

‘Is cuid de mo shraith Olóige é an grianghraf seo ina bhfuil an leathchúpla dearthár Nigéarach-Éireannach, Dante agus Leroy, le feiceáil. Tá scrúdú á dhéanamh ar dhúbailteacht, féiniúlacht thairseachúil, cuimhne ar an mbaile, an tairseach idir óige agus ógántacht, agus solúbthacht inscne. Tá mo choiléir lámhdhéanta á gcaitheamh ag na suiteoirí, coiléir atá déanta as éadach boird dathaithe ón Tuirc, cianachló ar a bhfuil craobhacha olóige priontáilte mar aon le móitífeanna de Chrann Beatha Ceilteach. Frámaithe ag na gnéithe Meánmhara, cruthaíonn a stánadh suaimhneach, leanúnach, droichead idir m’oidhreacht Thurcach agus an saol in Éirinn.’

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