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Manifesta purposely strives to keep its distance from what are often seen as the dominant centres of artistic production, instead seeking fresh and fertile terrain for the mapping of a new cultural topography.

Manifesta 16 Ruhr, upcoming
– , Germany
Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana
– , Spain
Manifesta 14 Prishtina
– , Kosovo
Manifesta 13 Marseille
– , France
Manifesta 12 Palermo
– , Italy
Manifesta 11 Zurich
– , Switzerland
Manifesta 10 St. Petersburg
– , Russian Federation
Manifesta 9 Genk
– , Belgium
Manifesta 8 Murcia – Cartagena
– , Spain
Manifesta 7 South Tyrol – Trentino
– , Italy
Manifesta 6 Nicosia, Cancelled
Cyprus
Manifesta 5 Donostia-San Sebastian
– , Spain
Manifesta 4 Frankfurt/Main
– , Germany
Manifesta 3 Ljubljana
– , Slovenia
Manifesta 2 Luxembourg
– , Luxembourg
Manifesta 1 Rotterdam
– , Netherlands
Participant

Gözde İlkin, TR

The deficient joint gap, 2017 © Gözde İlkin. Photo © Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana / Ivan Erofeev.

Gözde İlkin is an artist who works with used and found domestic textiles that reflect social and cultural identity. Archives of contemporary memory, her embroidered motifs and drawings on fabric address issues of belonging, boundaries, family and gender. Her embroidered and painted forms focus on the body as an experimental or affective landscape. She uses abstract forms such as roots to represent the body and its experience of its habitat. Her nature-inspired forms trace the transformative effects of plants, animals and humans brought together. As she designs her forms, İlkin thinks about experience, movement and affect – concepts that build on multidisciplinary coexistence.