I’m Here!

December 1 - 15, 2022

Pera Film, launched every year to raise awareness on World AIDS Day, I’m here! continues this year with the selection of Visual AIDS, a contemporary art organization.

Being & Belonging is a program of seven short videos from artists living with HIV across the world. From navigating sex and intimacy to confronting stigma and isolation, Being & Belonging centers the emotional realities of living with HIV today. How does living with HIV shift the ways that a person experiences, asks for, or provides love, support, and belonging? The seven videos are a call for belonging from those that have been stigmatized within their communities or left out of mainstream HIV/AIDS narratives.

This program’s screenings are free admission. Drop in, no reservations. As per legal regulations, all our screenings are restricted to persons over 18 years of age, unless stated otherwise.

December 1

19:00 Vertical Memory

Kiss of Life

Nuance

Los Amarillos

We Are Here: Voices of Black Women Who Live with HIV

Red Flags, a Love Letter

Lxs dxs bichudas

December 2

20:00 Vertical Memory

Kiss of Life

Nuance

Los Amarillos

We Are Here: Voices of Black Women Who Live with HIV

Red Flags, a Love Letter

Lxs dxs bichudas

December 9

20:00 Vertical Memory

Kiss of Life

Nuance

Los Amarillos

We Are Here: Voices of Black Women Who Live with HIV

Red Flags, a Love Letter

Lxs dxs bichudas

December 15

19:00 Vertical Memory

Kiss of Life

Nuance

Los Amarillos

We Are Here: Voices of Black Women Who Live with HIV

Red Flags, a Love Letter

Lxs dxs bichudas

Vertical Memory

Vertical Memory

Kiss of Life

Kiss of Life

Nuance

Nuance

Los Amarillos

Los Amarillos

We Are Here: Voices of Black Women Who Live with HIV

We Are Here: Voices of Black Women Who Live with HIV

Red Flags, a Love Letter

Red Flags, a Love Letter

Lxs dxs bichudas

Lxs dxs bichudas

The First Nudes

The First Nudes

Men were the first nudes in Turkish painting. The majority of these paintings were academic studies executed in oil paint; they were part of the education of artists that had finally attained the opportunity to work from the live model. The gender of the models constituted an obstacle in the way of characterizing these paintings as ‘nudes’. 

Portrait of a Bullfighter (1797)

Portrait of a Bullfighter (1797)

The man is depicted in three-quarters view, turning straight to the viewers with a penetrating glance. The background is grey, while the clothes, the hair, and cap are black. 

Loading Limit

Loading Limit

Pera Museum presented a talk on Nicola Lorini’s video installation For All the Time, for All the Sad Stones, bringing together the artists Nicola Lorini, Gülşah Mursaloğlu and Ambiguous Standards Institute to focus on concepts like measuring, calculation, standardisation, time and change.