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Bryony Dunne and Roger Anis

DEPO, Tütün Deposu, Lüleci Hendek Caddesi No.12, Tophane, Istanbul

The photography and video installations of Cairo’s Giza Zoo created by Irish artist Bryony Dunne and Egyptian photojournalist Roger Anis are on display at DEPO. Their work digs into the zoo’s complex world, investigating how the zoo has come to exist with fauna and flora transported to the former British colony through the Suez Canal and focusing on the intimacy and the condition of shared captivity between the animals and their keeper.

150 years after the opening of the Suez Canal, the Giza Zoo is a prism to reflect on its significance and the movement it allowed, as well as the after effects of colonialism.