Gözde İlkin works on found domestic fabrics such as tablecloths, curtains, bed sheets, etc. that are representative of social identity, and social processes and that have become objects of memory. Her motifs and drawings on fabrics depict today’s cultural information, political and social relationships, and gender issues.
As materials, first-hand fabrics and motifs keep different memories of the lives in daily use, bringing the main questions about getting around like roots under the feeling of belonging.
Her embroidered and painting forms focus on the body as an experimental or affective landscape. She uses abstract forms like roots to depict the body and its experiences with its habitat.
Recently, Ilkin has started to design fabrics as a stage that she could inhabit via drawing, stitching, and sound. Sound, visual material, and texts she writes constitute the main forms of her works. She thinks about experiences, movement, and affect, about concepts building on to multi-disciplinary coexisting when she designs her forms.
Ilkin traces nature to discover ways of belonging. Her forms that are inspired by nature track the healing and transforming effects through plants, animals, and humans are drawn closer together.
