SOLO EXHIBITION | WELL-GONE, MOUCHES VOLANTES, COLOGNE

Yeşim Akdeniz’s solo exhibition ‘WELL-GONE’ can be visited at Mouches Volantes, Cologne until January 13, 2024. The exhibition brings together two traditional, hand-crafted (yorgan) blankets by Birol Usta from Istanbul with recent works of the artist. The Yorganci blankets are an important point of reference for the artist’s previous radical selfcare series in which she reclaims this craft, but also for her new works which combines colourful textiles, silicone casts of fruits, vegetables and flowers and hand-painted metal suspension pieces. With showing the Yorganci blankets together with her own work, the artist aims to create an exhibition that proposes a horizontal relationship between craft and art objects while simultaneously exploring hierarchical notions of labor and origin, production and domination.

November 21, 2023