Born not far from Ankara, socialised within the narrow circle of her Turkish family in Germany, she explores the limits of what is physically possible in her projects — whether she wears a chador and hangs upside - down in front of an audience
reading diary entries, newspaper articles and passages from the Qur «an («Permanent Words», 2009), or when she publicly kisses the walls, floor, furniture and ceiling of an exhibition
space for days on end, in order to express her appreciation of all that is overlooked or only too obvious, what we have become fond of or what is
intimate («Emotion in Motion», 2000).
Inviting the viewer to enter a
space charged with symbolic elements, from the more obvious to the more covert, that configure the multiple realities and
readings which give life to the artist's personal universe, «Something old, something new, something borrowed» essentially speaks of personal records and comforts, of the past and the present, of what was and what is — a series of reflections that convey a repertoire of emotions, interests, and stories particularly important to the author: distant family recollections, but also recent
intimate memories; pleasant re-connections with domesticity after long periods of travel in the real world, but also disconnections and ironic provocations with the virtual world of social media; a long relationship with the universe of animation and video games, but also another with themes of classical representation from the history of art.
, LIAF, Lofoten International Art Festival, Norway Rematerialized New Galerie Paris / New York, New Galerie, Paris on Off moments, Grimmuseum, Berlin Le tamis et le sable 2/3: L'Intervalle, Instants Chavirés, Paris New Eyes for New
Spaces, ISCP, New York Und everybody says yeah — on internet meme, The House of Electronic Arts, Basel 2012 The End (s) of the Library, Goethe - Institut New York Library, New York The Making of Americans: A marathon
reading of Gertrude Stein's novel, Triple Canopy, New York Let us keep our own noon, curated by David Horvitz, West, Den Haag Rome Photo Festival, MACRO, Testaccio, Rome Fair Exchange, curated by Taeyoon Choi, Eyebeam, New York Canceled: alternative manifestations and productive failures, organised by Lauren van Haaften - Schic, Center for Book Arts, New York Frieze, with Triple Canopy, New York Group exhibition, Access Art, Vancouver Matter Out of Place, The Kitchen, New York Scenes of Selves, Occasions for Ruses, Surrey Art Gallery, Vancouver In search of..., curated by Lennard Dost and Daniel Dennis de Wit, Academie Minerva, Groningen the chief on top of the chief, MIRACLE & CONNELLY PRESENTS, Vancouver Force Fields, curated by Alexis Granwell and Jenny Jaskey, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia 2011 The Greater Cloud, curated by Petra Heck, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam Worng, IMO, Copenhagen
Intimate Bureaucracies: Art and the Mail, curated by Zanna Gilbert, Art Exchange, University of Essex, Essex Subject to Change, Fathom + Hatch, New York The Best of 2011, Soloway, Brooklyn, New York The Open Daybook, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles FINISHED, Showpaper 42nd St Gallery, New York, New York As Yet UnTitled, SF Camerawork, San Francisco LATE Nights, Berkley Art Museum, Berkeley, California (performance) 2010 FREE, New Museum, New York Different Repetitions, curated by David Senior, Booklyn, New York Palling Around with Socialists, U-turn Art
Space, Cincinnati, Ohio We have as much time as it takes, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco FAX, Burnaby Art Gallery, Vancouver An Immaterial Survey of our Peers, Chicago (online) 01, Presented by 01 Magazine, 107 Shaw Gallery, Toronto The Page, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, California Burn, Baby, Burn!