Text by Fiona Vilmer (FR)
Les images s’affranchissent d’une construction médiatisée pour rendre visible les zones parfois grises, écrasées par le phénomène de stéréotypie. Par l’expérience comme nécessité à sa pratique, les photographies dépassent la vision statique incarnée par le stéréotype d’origine. La série Pay Here interroge le genre politique par le corps. Les danseuses de pole dance photographiées en dehors du show, délaissent les polarisations d’un regard masculinisé et d’une sexualisation exacerbée au profit d’une charge sensuelle consciente. Cet entre-deux démagnétise ainsi l’habitude du regard tourné vers l’objectification du corps, laissant un nouveau point de vue ouvert.
Les images décrivent des identités construites par et dans la société. Par l’observation de l’individu dans son ressentit propre, l’artiste se réconcilie avec le genre pour admettre sa propre identité plurielle, différente et fragmentée. Ancrées dans le réel, les narrations visuelles de Gözde Mimiko Türkkan se saisissent de la relation à l’Autre pour mieux se découvrir soi même.
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Video work for celebrating new exhibition L’Herbe entre les pavés at Analix Forever
Herbes folles et roses trémières tout l’été à Analix Forever Moving Art
Analix Forever – L’herbe entre les Pavés (et les roses dans les phallus)
Exhibition opening 24-25-26 May 2019 in Geneva
with works by Céline Cadaureille, mounir fatmi, Nikias Imhoof, Guillaume de Sardes, Laure Tixier, Guillaume Varone & Frank Smith and Marino Buscaglia
Full Contact – Phuket self-portrait featured in Barbara Polla interview at Swissinfo
‘Auteure d’un essai sur la nouvelle vague féministe, la Genevoise Barbara Polla souligne sa portée citoyenne et révolutionnaire en Suisse comme dans une bonne partie du monde. Rencontre avec une humaniste hors norme.’
"Beau Ideal" at Pilot Gallery/Istanbul, Feb 2019
Beau Ideal
GÖZDE MİMİKO TÜRKKAN, PINAR YOLDAŞ
16 FEBRUARY – 23 MARCH
Pilot is pleased to present “Beau Ideal”, a reflection on constructed beauty and a glance at gender politics. Today, having interest in how our bodies appear to our surroundings became a political issue. What we find aesthetically pleasing, cool or tacky is constructed by and also constructs the society. Along with the presence of Butler in the 90s we acknowledged that gender is a social construct. Gender is real only to the extent that it is performed and is a process of self-construction as well as beauty.
Gözde Mimiko Türkkan and Pınar Yoldaş has fresh approaches to the concept of “collective desire”. They delve from variety of angles into labels; skin colors, ethnicities, species, gender norms… Playing with the idea that the colors, forms or behavior of bodies are inherently vested with specific meanings, the exhibition sway in the breeze and they arrive to the station of body politics. Which body is the ideal one, according to who, where and when?
“Beau Ideal” features Türkkan’s photo series “Now You See Me” (2015-ongoing), the re-enactment of amateur looking-porn videos and “cam-girls”. The work expands in the exhibition and artist goes out for a new adventure, a search for the biggest right hand of man of African origin in Istanbul she can find. In this search, she produces a sculpture that determines the criteria like the glass shoe in the Cinderella story. Artist also documents her search and turns it into a video work. As the mediums diversify Türkkan’s investigation of the beauty myth branches. Looking from this perspective, the hand becomes the symbol of a workforce and its exploitation, in our era it becomes an instrument to measure success and define talent, like in the case of sportspeople. All in all, Türkkan’s works suggests a collective desire to be accepted.
Pınar Yoldaş’s “Designer Babies” (2013-ongoing), recently exhibited in the 4th Design Biennial (2018), is returning to Istanbul with new babies via Pilot Gallery. In the scope of her bio-critical feminist approach she also produced a new video. The work can be summarized with Agnes Vardas’ words from Les plages d’Agnès (2008): “The women’s struggle will be collective or it will not be; it’s not just about being free.”. Yoldaş wants to look deeper into the idea of beauty and finds its origins in biological world. Following in the footsteps of feminist philosopher Elizabeth Grosz, who believes that our notion of art and beauty is rooted in the animal world, Yoldaş continues her collages of biological excess with two new pieces focusing on birds and the young animal.
Gözde Mimiko Türkkan and Pınar Yoldaş confronts the mainstream, pre-conceptions and biases in the society. Which hand will fit in? Which baby will be the perfect one?
http://www.pilotgaleri.com/en/exhibitions/detail/97
"Jeu des Portraits en Famille" published in departmental newspaper Sud Ouest
Gözde Mimiko Türkkan au Centre Intermondes Photo: JEAN-CHRISTOPHE SOUNALET pour Sud Ouest
New Exhibition "Jeu des Portraits en Famille" at Centre Intermondes, Jun 2018 (FRA)
Vernissage « Jeu des Portraits en Famille » de GÖZDE MIMIKO TÜRKKAN (TURQUIE)
Après une résidence à la Ludothèque de Mireuil organisée par le Centre Socio-Culturel Le Pertuis, Gözde Mimiko Türkkan (Turquie) est de retour au Centre Intermondes pour exposer le travail photographique “Jeu des Portraits en Famille”, mené avec la complicité de familles rochelaises. Elles ont pu exprimer leurs liens dans un portrait, décalé ou pas, autour du jeu ou du sérieux, professionnel ou amateur. Par le biais de ce travail, l’artiste s’interroge sur la place de chacun dans la société et la famille, sur les relations parents/enfants. Le jeu et la prise de photo s’entremêlant, deux possibilités ont été proposées aux parents : Si leur enfant, adolescent ou grand enfant voulait faire la photo, à lui ou elle de décider du placement, des costumes, des gestes etc.., et aux parents d’obéir! Si leur enfant était trop petit, il ou elle pouvait alors choisir les costumes, les accessoires ou encore les jouets qu’il ou qu’elle aimerait voir sur la photo avec ses parents. Exposition du 6 au 20 juin 2018 au Centre Intermondes, de 10h à 13h et de 14h à 18h.
Pay Here (#06) in Louisville Photo Biennial at 21c Museum Hotel, Sep 2017 (ENG)
[…] Signs of the desire to possess and consume echo throughout this selection of photographs, particularly in the work of Gözde Türkkan whose Pay Here series focuses on the outward manifestation of sexual, psychological, emotional, and sociological identity. The confrontational gaze of the women in Türkkan’s photograph suggests a consideration of the potential costs of desire.
“Object(s) of Desire” at 21c Museum Hotel, Louisville/USA.
September 22 – December 31, 2017
Featuring photographic works by: Kelli Connell, Humberto Díaz, Zanele Muholi, Vik Muniz, Youseff Nabil, René Peña, and Gözde Türkkan
Featured in Art Unlimited, Mar 2017 (TUR)
Featured in Art Unlimited’s March-April issue (TUR).
Included in Imago Mundi Art "Istanbul Codex" collection, jul 2016
My work “self-portrait” included in Imago Mundi Art “Istanbul Codex: Contemporary Artists from Turkey” collection:
“227 works that give a real time snapshot of the art scene in a complex country, suspended between East and West, between Islamization and modernization, between advancement and untamed growth. Creativity, culture and art that can play an important role in enhancing an identity founded on the particularity of Turkey, a country between two worlds. Art that transcends boundaries, breaks rules and restrictions, bypasses all is, as in every Imago Mundi collection, the common thread of this collection that rightly also includes 20 works by Kurdish artists, the largest ethnic group in the country.”
http://www.imagomundiart.com/artworks/gozde-mimiko-turkkan-self-portrait
“227 works that give a real time snapshot of the art scene in a complex country, suspended between East and West, between Islamization and modernization, between advancement and untamed growth. Creativity, culture and art that can play an important role in enhancing an identity founded on the particularity of Turkey, a country between two worlds. Art that transcends boundaries, breaks rules and restrictions, bypasses all is, as in every Imago Mundi collection, the common thread of this collection that rightly also includes 20 works by Kurdish artists, the largest ethnic group in the country.”
http://www.imagomundiart.com/artworks/gozde-mimiko-turkkan-self-portrait
Artist talk moderated by ipek çınar at Ka Atölye in Ankara, jun 2016 (TUR)
“Ka Atölye’nin Kitap Dükkanı, raflarında yer alan kitapları ve yaratıcılarını izleyicileriyle buluşturmaya devam ediyor. Kitapların hikayelerini, yaratıcılarının deneyimlerini dinlemeyi, ufuk açıcı sohbetlerde bir araya gelmeyi istediğimiz bu etkinliklerin üçüncüsünde 10 Haziran Cuma akşamı 19.30’da İpek Çınar’ın moderatörlüğünde Gözde Mimiko Türkkan’ı konuk ediyoruz.”
http://kaatolye.com/etkinlikler/bulusmalar/
http://kaatolye.com/etkinlikler/bulusmalar/
Artist's books and Wish Tree catalog in Japan, Jan 2016
Artist’s books and Wish Tree catalog in Reminders Photography Stronghold‘s Photo book library in Tokyo / Japan.