This publication, which accompanies Mehtap Baydu’s solo exhibition Loving You Is So Hard! at Arter, aims at offering a comprehensive overview of the artist’s practice. Comprising Baydu’s performance, installation, photography, and video works from various periods, the book opens with a letter by Selen Ansen, curator of the exhibition, addressed to Mehtap Baydu. It also features an essay by curator and art historian Sandeep Sodhi, entitled “When The Peacock Dances Before The Rain”, which explores ...