With Nil, Video 2019 by Melis Tezkan, video still 1
With Nil, Video 2019 by Melis Tezkan, video still 1
With Nil, Video 2019 by Melis Tezkan, video still 2
With Nil, Video 2019 by Melis Tezkan, video still 2
With Nil, Video by Melis Tezkan, exhibition view 1 from Unspeakable home, enchanting companions at Badischer Kunstverein in Karlsruhe in 2019
With Nil, Video by Melis Tezkan, exhibition view 1 from Unspeakable home, enchanting companions at Badischer Kunstverein in Karlsruhe in 2019
With Nil, Video by Melis Tezkan, exhibition view 2 from Unspeakable home, enchanting companions at Badischer Kunstverein in Karlsruhe in 2019
With Nil, Video by Melis Tezkan, exhibition view 2 from Unspeakable home, enchanting companions at Badischer Kunstverein in Karlsruhe in 2019
With Nil - 2019 - video by Melis Tezkan, 29 min

With Nil (2019)
VIDEO, 28 min



with Nil records a round-trip train travel during which the artist Melis Tezkan accompanying and interviewing the artist Nil Yalter, whose thought-provoking oeuvre depicts the issues of women, working class, and excluded communities; immigrants and exiles by dwelling on the medium video with an astonishing artistic perspective and aesthetic presentation. During the course of crossing state-borders on a train with Nil depicts the fragments of life journey of two artists, whose shared and multiple experiences of displacement within and beyond spatial spaces is on focus while their dialogue are highlighting a feminist critique of socially constructed notions of femininity, motherhood and family.

Excerpt from the Unspeakable Home, Enchanting Companions exhibition text by Derya Bayraktaroğlu.

Press:
Anaïs Auger-Mathurin, Train talks: On Board with Nil Yalter and Melis Tezkan