Video and Object by Romuald Jandolo

Location: Büyük Valide Han

September 14th – 28th

daily – 1:00 pm – 7:00 pm

In the video – In the Land by Romuald Jandolo, a costumed figure wanders through a night garden, pacing in circles as if trapped in a metaphysical loop. His robe and capirote shimmer in black-and-white, evoking penitents, sorcerers or even ghosts.

Referencing the myth of King Midas, the work reverses the fantasy transformation. Instead of turning the world into gold, the figure is absorbed by the landscape itself. The film becomes a counter-alchemy: a meditation on estrangement, humility, and the fragile limits of symbolic power.

While the “Midas Touch” has come to symbolize success, mastery, and the almost magical ability to turn anything into gold, this film follows a solitary figure whose journey leads not to conquest, but to dissolution.

The video reflects not the power to change the world, but the vulnerability of being changed by it.

Romuald Jandolo is a French contemporary artist, and his artistic practice delves into the performative, influenced by circus shows with acrobats.