Gözde Ju
bangaloREsident@1Shanthiroad

Gözde Ju, by utilising various disciplines such as sewing, embroidery, found objects, video, and photography in her works, aims to highlight the reality and ambiguity of women's memories, pasts, and consciousness. At the same time, she seeks to make the roles women adopt in photographs, as well as concepts such as identity, gender, and memory, subjects of inquiry. By addressing themes of identity, belonging, memory, gender, feminism, culture, and nostalgia, she examines family relationships, the contradictions of forming a family, and societal gender roles in a documentary-like approach.

During her bangaloREsidency, Gözde Ju focuses on textile handicraft objects and production processes created by women. She investigates how the cultural change is reflected in handicrafts (such as napkins, tablecloths, cultural talismans) both as motifs and forms. She conducts extensive research on household objects produced by women in Bangalore using embroidery and textiles. The artist intends to trace the experiences of women, initiate dialogues and identify domestic cultural objects and materials, collect individual stories about the cultural heritage inherited from their mothers regarding handicrafts from different cultural ethnicity.

Following her graduation from a Fine Arts High School in 2009, Gözde Ju started studying in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Anadolu University. She graduated from the Printmaking and Painting Departments (double major). In 2018, she obtained her Master's degree with the thesis on “Spatial Searches in Contemporary Printmaking Art”. Her master thesis focused on the evaluation of printmaking in the context of space and contemporary art. Furthermore, she completed the course period of the Proficiency of Art Program (PhD). She continues to work at her studio located in AtelierFrankfurt e.V., the art hub supported by the Frankfurt Cultural Office in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The artist took part in various exhibitions and artist residency in different countries such as "Bien" Textile Art Biennial 2023, Kranj, Slovenia; Supermarket Independent Art Fair- Stockholm (2023-2024); Pasaj & Barin Han Little Things Studio Residency Program in Istanbul (2024); SIS Artists Residency Program in Ordu (2023).

This residency is supported by basis e.v.