Gözde İLKIN
Based in Istanbul, Turkish artist Gözde İlkin works with found domestic textiles that reflect social identity and processes. Her motifs and drawings on fabric depict today’s cultural information, political and social relationships, and gender issues. İlkin’s embroidery and painting focus on the body as an experimental or affective landscape. She has recently started to use drawing, stitching and sound to design fabrics as stages, tracing nature to discover ways of belonging as well as the healing and transforming effects of the coexistence of plants, animals and humans.
İlkin completed her undergraduate studies at the painting department of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in 2004 and her postgraduate studies at Marmara Fine Arts Faculty in 2012. Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions at PARIS-B, Paris (2023); Gypsum Gallery, Cairo (2022); artSümer Gallery, Istanbul (2022); and MAC/VAL Museum, Paris (2019). She has also participated in group shows at 17th Lyon Biennale (2024); NYUAD Art Gallery, Abu Dhabi (2024); the 4th Autostrada Biennale, Kosovo (2023); 13th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2021) and other prominent venues.