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Newsletter no3 / Spring is Here🌱(no not really) : A recap of my spring-summer-autumn 2021 news

Dears friends, family, co-workers,
fellow artists and supporters,

I hope my third newsletter finds you well. You probably wonder why it’s entitled ‘Spring is Here’. The reason is, well, I was supposed to send it during spring 2021. But instead of celebrating the arrival of the new season, I had to face the extent of my inclination for emotional isolation while practically being stuck in Turkey during the pandemic…

Gratefully, borders opened up again, I got to see loved ones; couraged up and finished the major video work I was working on which is currently on view in Geneva! So I’d like to share a recap of my spring-summer-autumn news.
Read the rest and check it out here.
 

"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

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 grâce triomphera


 

'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/

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.
Click here to read my very first newsletter!
 

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

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