News from Mimiko: Checking-in, Catching-up
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“Innergy/Watery” project (Working Title) recipient of SAHA Sustainability Fund: Covid-19
SAHA – Supporting Contemporary Art from Turkey, called for a new fund to support initiatives in visual arts or artists with an existing production interrupted by Covid-19 pandemic or with new project proposal addressing issues that have arisen due to the pandemic.
My ongoing video installation project “Innergy/Watery” (Working Title) will be completed thanks to this fund.
Gözde Mimiko Türkkan Innergy/Watery screenshot
‘Entrouvert’ Group Show Opens at Analix Forever, May 2020
ENTROUVERT (HALF-OPEN): we are afraid, and swing between uncertainty and hope. Art is hope: it creates with, and against, the darkest in us and instills light in it. Between confinement and freedom, the gallery door is ajar, the Covid19 is there, on the walls, locked in the images; the anxiety is palpable. We are in the “prehistory of a smile” (Baricco).
An moving exhibition, inside and outside, on the walls and on the net. An evolving exhibition, inside and outside the walls, in the gallery and on the web, with CĂ©line Cadaureille, Debi Cornwall, Angus Fairhurst, Shaun Gladwell, ValĂ©rie Horwitz, Nikias Imhoof, Stefan Imhoof, Abdul Rahman Katanani (from June 13), Ali Kazma, Rachel Labastie, MaĂŻa Mazaurette, Sylvie Mermoud & Pierre Bonard, Robert Montgomery, Pavlos Nikolakopoulos, Jhafis Quintero, Klavdij Sluban, Laure Tixier, Mimiko TĂĽrkkan and Guillaume Varone. HALF-OPEN also reconnects with the rich musical history of the gallery and offers, a performance by Nikias Imhoof, « Ă€ l’Ă©tude » becomes a paradigm for voluntary artistic confinement, which will take place every day of the exhibition, Tuesday to Saturday, from noon to 2 pm.
Read on more about ‘Entrouvert’ by Paul Ardenne (in French):
ENTRE-FERMÉ, ENTROUVERT
Feature on Slash: https://slash-paris.com/fr/evenements/entrouvert
In Conversation with Barbara Polla ‘Million Dollar Artist’ on Galerie Analix Forever’s website (EN/FR)
‘Chronicles of a Boxer’ in 5 episodes / ‘Chronique d’une Boxeuse’ en 5 Ă©pisodes in English and French:
Chronique d’une boxeuse – Episode #01
Chronique d’une boxeuse – Episode #02
Chronique d’une boxeuse – Episode #03
Chronique d’une boxeuse – Episode #04
Chronique d’une boxeuse – Episode #05
Article ‘La grâce triomphera’ on online art agenda Chat PerchĂ©, Mar 2020 (FR)
”La puissance et la grâce” regroupe les travaux de trois photographes talentueux dont les univers iconographiques se croisent lors de cette magnifique exposition collective. Mimiko Türkkan, Guillaumes de Sardes et Dana Hoey nous proposent une vision de la femme non conventionnelle. Ici, elle repousse les limites de la force physique, mais aussi de ses fantasmes. Voici les portraits de femmes libres.
Full article by Carine Bovey here:
‘La Puissance et la grâce’ exhibition featured in Slash online magazine, Mar 2020
Plongée en images au cœur de l’exposition (suspendue pour le moment) La Puissance et la grâce à la galerie Analix Forever de Genève.
La Puissance et la grâce réunit les œuvres des trois photographes Dana Hoey, Guillaume de Sardes et Mimiko Türkkan qui consacrent leur travail aux portraits de femmes à la galerie Analix Forever.
https://slash-paris.com/articles/focus-la-puissance-et-la-grace-galerie-analix-forever-geneve
Participating in the exhibition ‘La Puissance et la Grâce’ at Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva, March 2020
Three photographers, Dana Hoey (USA), Guillaume de Sardes (France) and Mimiko Türkkan (Turkey), propose to the viewers images of women who combine power and grace, each in their own way. Dana Hoey has always photographed women but this time, beyond some of her mythical photographs that will be shown in the exhibition, she represents herself in a new way: the power and the grace of her own body, in action. Guillaume de Sardes too, photographs women, he is fascinated by “the power of their grace”. From his delicate, admiring, loving images, often in black and white, emanates a feminine energy that is also to be found in his books and films : they reveal the unknown, the free other. Mimiko Türkkan, who has photographed worlds of nightlife, sex and boxing, presents a new photographic series allusively representing women expressing the “uncanny energy” that Analix Forever promotes. Türkkan is interested in women who have “powers” and the artist develops, for this exhibition, a new concept: Innergy. She is looking for and pictures this inner energy that makes the power of women – and others.
Grace and Power / La Puissance et la Grâce / March 13, 14, 15 mars / GENEVE
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