Büşra Kaya
CAF awarded a grant to Büşra Kaya for her project, “How Many Legs?”
How Many Legs? is a contemporary art exhibition hosted at Barın Han in Istanbul, Turkey, examining the ethical, political, and emotional dimensions of human–animal relationships through the lens of empathy. Its central provocation, drawn from Jeremy Bentham’s moral philosophy, is whether physical characteristics (the number of legs, the shape of a body, a species classification) can justifiably determine whose life deserves care, protection, or grief.
The exhibition, which CAF’s grant is funding, brings together sixteen artists working across video, photography, installation, sculpture, performance documentation, and new media. The works address habitat destruction, industrial farming, urban transformation, violence toward non-human life, and the normalization of animal exploitation, situating animal ethics within the broader systems of anthropocentric culture, law, and production.
Büşra Kaya is a curator and researcher based in Istanbul. Her work focuses on contemporary art, exhibition ethics, and relationships with non-human beings. Integrating curatorial practice with academic research, Kaya develops exhibitions that move across different disciplines and narrative forms.
