The Village of Exception A short introduction This text was written during the summer of 2011 in collaboration with Vienna based artist Nilbar Güreş. Her new project, “Open Phone Booth” (2007-2011), has been in development for some time and is still a work in progress. The work will be shown at Frieze Frame during October 2011. Following ...

  Nilbar Güres' settings play a pivotal role catalyzing her reenactments. Her selected locations are embedded with different meanings from her past. The open-ended narratives she scripts are shaped by the settings which the former aim to deterritorialize. The artist investigates ways of changing the grammatical constructions of her memory and thus the collective unconscious via ...

  CIRCIR (Images for 6th Berlin Biennial) Nilbar Güres¸ declares war on the prevailing relations between the sexes by playful means, her weapons ranging from sewing needles to boxing gloves. In drawings, collages, performances, videos, and photographs she overstates the norms of the majority society, countering them with hybridized enactments of female identity. In doing so, she ...

A young woman is exercising on uneven parallel bars while having her legs waxed by another woman, dressed as a house cleaner. A woman is performing a gymnastic balancing act atop a pommel horse, dressed inappropriately as a housewife, with her head covered, while another woman attempts to go under her skirt with a hygienic pad.