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"Hold Me Close to Your Heart" by Patricia Piccinini
Arter Gallery, Istanbul
Puzzling and overwhelming experince, walking through this exhibition . First you see the shiny motorbikes who are in-love, then many of these "unnatural" and "freakish" creatures composed with natural, almost life-like human figures.
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