Playtime 2026: 'As if We Truly Met'

Two young men drift through life in a feverish dream, creating stories that aid them in their upbringing as a method to understand the experiences they encounter in life. By portraying roles of dominance, care, and passion, they learn the social codes of existence. They learn about love.

By playing with the space between fiction and reality, 'As if We Truly Met' actively displays tools of manipulation by drawing links between the fictional characters, between the director and performers, and between the performers and audience. In a spectacular moment of collision, these worlds merge together, compelling the audience to take an active position in how they relate to the presented narrative.

'As if We Truly Met' questions what shapes our understanding of ourselves and each other. What kind of narratives have we internalised to become who we are, and to what extent are we able to change this imposed reality? 

Film installation Are We Feminist Enough?

The video installation Are We Feminist Enough? by Neslihan Kaymak is continuously on view in the space beneath the café of Frascati 4.

This film installation is part of Neslihan’s project on feminism, womanhood, and motherhood. It is a first exploration developed through close collaboration with her mother and grandmother, drawing on oral history and personal living archives as its source material. Through image, voice, and presence, she traces how memory, experience, and inherited knowledge move across generations. Shaping what is carried forward, what is interrupted, and what continues to live within the body.

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