The Revolution Is Live, 2025
Site-Specific Installation
“This is the reaction of an artist to the call against corruption and for the de-capitalisation of democracy which has been spreading around the world. Bilal Yılmaz invites the audience to carry the spirit of street-level solidarity and enthusiasm into their everyday lives — as a source of enduring inspiration and a reminder that meaningful change takes time. Echoing Gil Scott-Heron’s iconic verse “The revolution will not be televised” (1970) —a critique of the anaesthetizing effects of corporate-saturated media and a celebration of grassroots resistance— Yilmaz’s work urges us to push back against the flood of empty imagery and manipulated narratives and instead to choose the images that truly move, energise and empower us. The act of choosing in itself becomes an act of resistance: a daily commitment to integrating change into our routines — whether by rejecting exploitative systems or by raising our voices and fists in collective action.
Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje(MoCA), 2025
Exhibition:“Graceland Paradox: Navigating Uncertainty”
Text/Curator: Lydia Chatziiakovou
In the framework of CRIC Festival for Critical Culture by Kontrapunkt.
Supported by MOMus-Experimental Centre for the Arts and the Greek Embassy in Skopje.
“Bilal’s new work that is introduced in the Graceland exhibition, conceptually different from the works of the two other artists, introduces a new certainty, one that counters the dominant catastrophic one. Yes we live in a catastrophe, but at the same time we are making a revolution every day. The new uncertainty is thus, either social barbarism and planetary collapse on the one side, or revolution on the other. It is up to us to enter this field full of lines of connection and separation and make our lives an embodied revolution. “
Artan Sadiku
