Metamorphosis Chat

Ferhat Özgür stages an encounter between his mother, who wears traditional attire, and her neighbor, who prefers the modern style. Shot in the aesthetic of Turkish soap operas, the video shows the two women chatting about ordinary concerns: their families and friends and how to dress. Then they start trading clothes, raising the subject of culturally fraught symbols such as the headscarf; their humorous exchange defuses any hint of conflict and suggests that minds can always change.