Published on the occasion of Nilbar Güreş's exhibition presented at the Türkiye Pavilion during the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, this volume explores themes of the body, space, belonging, migration, and subtle transformation.
Engaging with the new constellation of works conceived for this exhibition, as well as ongoing trajectories in Güreş's practice, it offers nuanced perspectives on her evolving visual language. Texts by Başak Doğa Temür and Franz Thalmair are accompanied by poems selected for their resonance with the exhibition's themes of displacement, memory, and plurality, opening up new dialogues and encounters.
Nilbar Güreş (born 1977 in Istanbul) lives and works in Naples, Vienna and Istanbul. Her practice spans photography, video, film, painting, performance, sculpture, installation and mixed media collage on fabric. Güreş's works depart from biography then swirls around to address larger issues. Güreş is particularly sound to social injustice, gender roles and cultural identity codes—she researches, documents and finds poetic ways to flout conventions in witty figurations.
Edited by Başak Doğa Temür.
Texts by Başak Doğa Temür and Franz Thalmair.
Poems by Margaret Atwood, Joy Harjo, Etel Adnan, Bejan Matur, Diya Ciwan, Sappho, Bi̇rhan Keski̇n, Audre Lorde, Jîla Huseynî, Avedig Isahakyan.
