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.