Manifesta purposely strives to keep its distance from what are often seen as the dominant centres of artistic production, instead seeking fresh and fertile terrain for the mapping of a new cultural topography.
Manifesta 15 Barcelona took place in Barcelona and 11 surrounding cities ot its metropolitan region.
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Gözde İlkin, TR
The deficient joint gap, 2017 © Gözde İlkin. Photo © Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana / Ivan Erofeev.
Gözde İlkin is an artist who works with used and found domestic textiles that reflect social and cultural identity. Archives of contemporary memory, her embroidered motifs and drawings on fabric address issues of belonging, boundaries, family and gender. Her embroidered and painted forms focus on the body as an experimental or affective landscape. She uses abstract forms such as roots to represent the body and its experience of its habitat. Her nature-inspired forms trace the transformative effects of plants, animals and humans brought together. As she designs her forms, İlkin thinks about experience, movement and affect – concepts that build on multidisciplinary coexistence.