ROOTS REMEMBER AS THE LANDSCAPE TWISTED
Kökler Hatırlar Manzara Bükülürken
2024
VIDEO LINK: https://vimeo.com/1036986539
Textile and video installation,
Textile painting, patchwork with seeds, and embroidery on designed printed fabric and Fibre-filled fabric objects 250 x 365 cm
Video 14'08"
Video Choreography
Aslı Öztürk and Melih Kıraç
Performance
Aslı Öztürk, Melih Kıraç, Barış Diker, Gözde İlkin
Sound and Music
Taner Yücel
Video
Canberk Ulusan
Special thanks to Salt (venue support) and .artSümer Istanbul
Roots Remember As The Landscape Twisted was produced as part of the ANTEPRIMA x CHAT Contemporary Textile Art Award exhibition, organized by MILL6.
In Roots Remember as the Landscape Twisted, İlkin draws inspiration from cave paintings and the intersecting symbols of different cultures, rendering forms and images of interconnected stories woven in and with the world. The work is a performative landscape, a fabric stage where hands and objects emerge from pockets. At this stage, the delicacy, slowness, and continuity of lives in the natural formation of a landscape contrast with today’s interventionist relationship between man and nature, rapid consumption and occupation, and one-sided perspective. The symbols of different geographies and beliefs are a genealogy of language and gestures that give birth, awaken, and activate each other through sound and movement. Shaped by cultural stories, ceremonies, dances, and rituals, the landscape holds the memory of humans finding their place in nature on Earth, where living and non-living beings are born of each other.
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ENTRUSTED GROUND
EMANET ZEMİN
2022
Gözde İlkin
.artSümer Gallery
Curator: Duygu Demir
Sound Design: Berke Can Özcan
Choreography: Aslı Öztürk
Performance: Alara Erdem, Barış Diker, Nazlı Durak, Umut Özdaloğlu
.artSümer Gallery, İstanbul
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More info at: https://beykozkundura.com/hafiza/vardiya/
THE MOUTH OF THE GROUND
2021
Video 13 min 33 sec
VIDEO LINK https://vimeo.com/551645169
Gözde İlkin drew inspiration for the newly commissioned work on view at the Herbert from the environmental importance of minerals and rocks to improve soil damaged by climate change. Rocks and minerals have broader medicinal properties and play a role in ritual and folklore. İlkin became interested in the subject after being intrigued by the rocks she encountered in walks around her neighborhood in Istanbul. Commissioned by Invisible Dust for UnNatural History at the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum as part of Coventry City of Culture 2021. Publicly funded by Coventry City Council, the Wellcome Trust, and National Lottery Funded by Arts Council England.
More info at: invisibledust.com/projects/unnatural-history
CRUISE OF ENDLESS CONFESSION
S.i.S. Sonsuz İtiraflar Seyri
2016
VIDEO LINK: https://vimeo.com/184913398
147 x 190 cm
Elde işlenmiş kumaş üzerine video ve ses düzenlemesi
Embroidery, video and sound arrangement on fabric
Video & Ses 12'15"
Ses Düzenlemesi: Taner Yücel
S.i.S. (Sonsuz itiraflar Seyri) geçmiş ve gelecek arasına sıkışmış, kendini tekrar eden kayıp bir mekan ve zaman manzarası sunar. Leyla Erbil'in Vapur öyküsünden ilhamla, sisli bir günde Istanbul Boğaz'da çekilen video görüntü, Taner Yücel'in ses duzenlemesi ile işlenmiş kumaş üzerinde deneyimlenir. Motifsiz, boş bir kumaş üzerine işlenmiş figürler, video ve ses düzenlemesi ile zemine kavuşur. Kumaşa eşlik eden ses düzenlemesi kumaş üzerindeki figürlerin seslendirildiği bir radyo tiyatrosu olarak kurgulanmıştır. Yer yön kaybı yaşayan karakterlerin dışarıdan gelen absürt anonslarla hizaya çekildigi seslendirmede, üstünde ve altında nefes almanın imkansiz hale geldigi su, zaman algısının yitirildiği bir zemine dönüşür. Hayal edilen ama bir türlü varılamayan, sürekli yer degiştiren bir coğrafyada yaşanan bellek kaybı ve kayboluş üzerine bir denemedir.