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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 Céline Cadaureille, Debi Cornwall, Angus Fairhurst, Shaun Gladwell, Valérie Horwitz, Nikias Imhoof, Stefan Imhoof, Abdul Rahman Katanani (from June 13), Ali Kazma, Rachel Labastie, Maïa Mazaurette, Sylvie Mermoud & Pierre Bonard, Robert Montgomery, Pavlos Nikolakopoulos, Jhafis Quintero, Klavdij Sluban, Laure Tixier, Mimiko Türkkan and Guillaume Varone. HALF-OPEN also reconnects with the rich musical history of the gallery and offers, a performance by Nikias Imhoof, « À l’étude » 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 épisodes 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 Perché, 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
For more information:
https://analixforever.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/analix-forever-grace-and-power-la-puissance-et-la-grc3a2ce-march-13-14-15-mars-geneve.pdf
'Sedüksiyon' video solo show at Bilsart in Istanbul, Feb 2020
New video work ‘Sedüksiyon’ will be shown at Bilsart in Istanbul between 5-15 February 2020, starting with a discussion with writer Süreyyya Evren about gender identities in sexually-charged mainstream shows and their audience.
http://www.bilsart.com/en/exhibitions#/mimiko-1/
Featured in Tribune des Arts's article about Barbara Polla and her gallery Analix Forever
Swiss magazine Tribune des Arts featured an article about Barbara Polla, her gallery Analix Forever and our upcoming exhibition with Dana Hoey and Guillaume de Sardes.
Mimiko's very first newsletter!
Knowing the difficulty to keep up with the information load on social media and to share relevant news alike, I decided to launch out into creating my very first (probably monthly) newsletter.
You received this because at some point our paths crossed (and we most likely exchanged emails), so I hope it finds you well! And please find below all the exciting things that happened during November.
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Solo show presented by Analix Forever at P/CAS during Paris Photo, 7-11 Nov 2019
https://yia-artfair.com/edition-2019-pendant-paris-photo/
P/CAS – PARIS CONTEMPORARY ART SHOW#19 By YIA Art Fair (during PARIS PHOTO).
Paris, from Thursday, November 07 to Monday, November 11, 2019
Review by Fabien Ribery in his blog L'intervalle (FR)
PAY HER, ce que le genre fait à l’image, par Mimiko Türkkan, photographe
Qui regarde qui et pourquoi ? qui désire et dévore qui ? quels sont les pouvoirs – de fascination, de déconstruction, de révélation – de l’image ? Dans une série intitulée Pay Her(e), la jeune artiste photographie, entre désir personnel et distance critique, un strip club, les couloirs, les vestiaires, la scène, et surtout le corps des femmes vrillé autour d’une barre de pole dance.
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.
Read the full text here: https://fionavilmer.com/gozde-mimiko-turkkan
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
