‘Earth Fight’ featured in article by Barbara Polla for Josefffine Revue n:13
Artiste, femme, la quarantaine : Portait de groupe au féminin singulier by Barbara Polla
https://josefffine.com/Josefffine-13
Featured in ArtReview’s 15th Shanghai Biennial Review by Mark Rappolt
‘Gözde Mimiko Türkkan offers up 20 hypnotic, slightly crazed red-acrylic paintings of waves (all from 2025) that by turns look like contours on a map, the whorls of a fingerprint, energy waves or earthly strata, and come with titles ranging from Unknowable Waves # 8 (one of several titled similarly) and Feminist Waves, to Waves of oppression and Space debris and celestial bodies surfing the atmospheric waves of our planetary spheres (a vortex of hand-drawn concentric circles). It’s an obsessive body of work that collectively suggests that everything is the same and hovering on the edge of meaningfulness and meaninglessness. It’s a suggestion that echoes throughout the biennial, with a certain amount of bravery, given that it’s one that no museum marketing team would make. Even if the artists here do.’
https://artreview.com/15th-shanghai-biennale-does-the-flower-hear-the-bee-review-mark-rappolt
Performance at Yapı Kredi Kültür Sanat
Son dönem işlerinde suyun bir beden olarak varlığı ve insan bedeniyle kesişim alanları üzerine düşünen ve çalışan Mimiko performansta dalgaya dair sorular soruyor. “Nasıl dalgaya dönüşülür?”, “Dalga nasıl canlandırılır?” sorularından yola çıkan Mimiko, “(kendini) Seine Nehri’ne Vermek” projesinin performatif kısmında, çağlar boyu derinliklerinde adaklar kadar silahlar da birikmiş olan bu su-bedenle, karşılık beklemeden, vermek eylemi üzerinden ilişkiye geçmeye çalışıyor.
12 Aralık 2024 Perşembe Saat: 18:30
https://sanat.ykykultur.com.tr/etkinlikler/kendini-seine-nehrine-vermek?date=12.12.2024#
Participating in the group show ‘an Ecology of Images’ at Galerie Analix Forever
‘How to Destroy an Artwork’ will be part of the exhibition running from 1st March to 1st May.
Participating artists are: Maryam ASHRAFI, Aurélien BAMBAGIONI, Janet BIGGS , Véronique CAYE, Guillaume CHAMAHIAN, Isabelle CHAPUIS, Marios FOURNARIS, Nikias IMHOOF, Jeanne ROUALET, Tuomo MANNINEN, Mario RIZZI, Mariabrice SAPPHOCATHERIN, Guillaume de SARDES, Mimiko TÜRKKAN, Guillaume VARONE, Klavdij SLUBAN and Frank SMITH.
‘Earth Fight’ featured in article by Ayça Okay in Medium (EN)
Among the most striking videos of the fair is Mimiko Türkkan’s Earth Fight, projected in 4K. Mimiko Türkkan, an artist living and producing in Turkey, is participating in the fair with Analix Forever. “Earth Fight”, which was recently exhibited in the Waves of Intention exhibition at Pilot Gallery and the 10th Mediations Biennial, draws attention to the dystopian image of an entire ecosystem destroyed by the fires in the Aegean Region two years ago. It reflects on the damage caused by natural processes, profit-oriented decisions, human rights and excessive interventions in an attempt to restore the environment. It evaluates the situations that arise when climate emergencies are declared worldwide.
“Showing Earth Fight at the Loop allowed us to engage one-on-one with an audience interested in the video and with art professionals visiting the fair. Since the main theme of the work is about the forest fires that are unfortunately happening in many parts of the world, I internalised that I had made a work that established a direct communication channel with the audience through the ‘exchanges’ at Loop, and this was a great source of inner satisfaction. The fact that a work that was challenging for me and resulted in powerful feelings touched the different sensitivities of the audience from a wide range of backgrounds and that they shared their emotions with me face to face was a valuable experience that I can rarely experience in Turkey.” Gözde Mimiko Türkkan.
https://medium.com/nftify-uk/a-bridge-between-the-symbolic-world-and-nature-loop-barcelona-and-its-highlights-8b408f9003ee