Wish Tree
Gözde ‘Mimiko’ Türkkan
Empire
Turkish and English
Softcover
62 pages
170 x 210 mm
2015
ISBN Not available
Wish Tree published along side an exhibition at The Empire Project, aims to shake our beliefs and patterns that we hold tightly. Based on his self-directed determinations, Türkkan reflects the intercultural codes that we are afraid to talk about in life and that touch the stereotypes of human identity, with the frames he takes from daily life with tweezers. Examining sexual identity and body politics by drawing on her own past and social analysis, the artist presents three different photography series together in her new exhibition. Collected under the title of ‘Wish Tree’, the series brings the audience together with cultures, customs, beliefs and stances from different countries.
(source: https://www.61saat.com/gundem/gozde-mimiko-turkkan-kimdir-dilek-agaci-fotograf-sergisi-gozde-mimiko-turkkan-pozlari-h272128.html)
About the Artist
Mimiko is an artist based in Istanbul who mostly produces videos, performative and textual works, photography series and artist’s books, focusing on connecting to/through the body and transcending the body. The first decade of her practice focused on gender roles and socially constructed identities through a subjective documentary approach. For the past five years she has been working towards exploring the expression of the inner flow — ‘innergy’, an amalgam of inner and energy — in human bodies and water-bodies.
By conducting a primarily visual and bodily experience-based artistic research and drawing connections between constructed binaries and dichotomies, she questions global narratives about gender roles, identities and more recently about climate and ocean emergencies with a multidisciplinary approach, aiming for creating a disturbance of predisposed personal and social structures.
mimiko.net
(source: https://mimiko.net/)
About the Publisher
Established in 2010 The Empire Project has exhibited the works of more than 40 Artists in two different historical venues over 7 seasons, engaging a devoted audience with seminars, workshops and projects. The Empire Project identifies and exhibits contemporary art from the regions which have historically been within the cultural sphere of influencecentered upon (or significantly affected by) the imperial focus we today call Istanbul. Geographically speaking, the range is wide, including most of the Mediterranean world and Arabian Peninsula, much of Eastern Europe, Anatolia, the Black Sea region, and Central Asia.
theempireproject.com
(source: https://theempireproject.com/about-us)
