Azade Köker’s work Dissolution (Çözülüş) has been acquired by Elgiz Museum for its permanent collection (05/04/2025)
Azade Köker’s practice critically engages with themes of violence against women, gender inequality, and the representation of women in society. Her works often depict fragmented and deconstructed female figures, addressing the systemic oppression and erasure of women throughout history. Through her sculptural language, Köker creates haunting, layered compositions that challenge the viewer to confront these urgent social issues.
The surface layering tradition, which we are familiar with from Köker’s artistic practice, is reflected in the mysterious forms whose existence, absence, and permeability are mixed with each other in the paper materials she uses. The bodies, which are as voluminous as they are volatile, highlight the points where the top-down identification processes fail and reveal the fictionality of the gender system. Light identities suspended in purgatory trace the cracks through which they can leak and flow.
Image: Azade Köker, Dissolution (Çözülüş), 2022.