Excited to be part of Moisture Künstlerinnen in Museum of Superior Installation in Braunschweig Germany
Curated by the amazing Dagmar Glausnitzer!
For our collaborative project Gamze Ronald will present a 2 day duo performance-installation Mimicking Delay 16th and 17th of May 2025, where we explore the relation between absence and intimacy, dreaming and reality, longing and distance. These live ‘conversations’ will be weaved together during the exhibition, using the same materials, movement and text, mimicking time zones and technological delays.
Umbrella project
Mimicking Delay is part of our umbrella project Overcoming the Obstacles over Time: A Commitment to Love and Touch. A dialogue between color and frame, space and movement, which we have been creating since the pandemic. From April 2020 we were not allowed to meet each other because of the Corona pandemic regulations in Turkey and the Netherlands. Galia, at that time, got a paper from the Dutch Embassy which stated that she was a threat to the Nation. In our online calls, we decided to commit to love and touch, as resistance to bureaucratic definitions that alienate rather than define us.
Artist Statement: Gamze (Gamze Öztürk)
Gamze is a Turkish performance artist currently based in the Netherlands, mainly focusing on live art, installation art, and lens-based media (film, photography, etc.) Her works predominantly explore female non-verbal languages in cultural theory. Starting in primitive times, she questions how women talk in restricted social structures. She mainly deals with visualizing women’s history shaped by a male gaze, focusing on body politics, ritual, narrative and hair. She uses performance to make art installations that show these ancient rituals that have been preserved for hundreds of years. Furthermore, she uses human hair as a material that links the woman and her ancestral DNA to express femininity.
Gamze Öztürk: https://www.gamzeozturk.net/bio
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