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Dilek Winchester | |
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| Born | 1974 (age 51–52) Istanbul |
| Website | https://dilekwinchester.com/ |
Dilek Winchester (b. 1974, Istanbul) is a Turkish-British contemporary artist, who works with research-driven artworks and explores a range of mediums, including video, installation, sculpture, text, performance, and printmaking[1]. Her subjects include language, translation, alphabet reform, and oral history[2]. In her works with language and script, Winchester is said to "trace how the daily practice of reading and writing today are implicated—and even outright complicit—in the histories of violence and dispossession that have been constitutive for the nation-state, histories that are continually disavowed."[3]
Education
[edit]Dilek Winchester received her BA with Honors in Painting from Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design, London, in 1998[4]. She went on to receive an MA in Art, Design and New Media from the Sir John Cass Department of Art and Design at London Metropolitan University in 2002[4]. In 2010, she completed her DFA at the Institute of Fine Arts, Marmara University, Istanbul with a thesis titled "Performative Platforms as Tools for Art Interventions in the Urban Space"[5].
Major Works
[edit]- 2025, 410 Letters: On Reading and Writing (Albanian), video. The camera roams across a landscape of letterforms used or proposed in 18th to 19th-century Albania, when the language had no unified writing system. The letterforms are from "Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Elbasan, Todhri, Vellara, Vezo, Berat and Latin-based scripts, including the Istanbul, Agimi and Bashkimi alphabets, as well as the current version of the Albanian alphabet".[6]
- 2024, Choreographies on the Unread, video series. This project was made in collaboration with a literary historian and a tap dance performer,[2] "which translates the rhythms of traditional Turkish poetry [Diwan] into the patterns of tap."[7][8]
- 2020, The Futureless Memory, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg. Winchester conceived the exhibition concept, and exhibited her artwork titled Stick, Stone, and Bones (2020), "which examines Kurt Schwitters’s years of exile (1940–1941) on the Isle of Man in the UK during the time of the Nazi period in Germany."[9] The exhibition was curated by Katja Schroeder.
- 2015, Apricots from Damascus, zine publication. A return to the zine format first explored in Apricot City A4 (2010), this iteration "focuses on a particular group of refugees who rely on their creative and intellectual abilities in the fields of art, writing, and music, to survive in their new environment: the city of Istanbul."[10]
- 2012, Alphabets (Interviews), two-part video. "Through a collage of voices from literary scholars and ancient book experts, both films explore the role of language within both the Karamanli (Anatolian orthodox Christian) and Armenian communities in the Ottoman Empire."[11]
- 2010, Apricot City A4, zine publication. An eleven-issue, DIY-style publication made by artists in Istanbul; it was reproduced in a bootleg style and carried and sold throughout the city by PVC pushcarts.[12]
- 2007-ongoing, On Reading and Writing, multimedia. In this series of artworks, Winchester transcribes texts into obscure, endangered or extinct languages. The project is said to be inspired by "first three Turkish novels published during the late Ottoman Empire. Even though the books were in Ottoman Turkish, they were printed in Greek, Arabic, and Armenian alphabets, respectively."[13]
Awards & Recognition
[edit]- 2017 - Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, Umbria, Italy.
- 2016 - International Open Call Winner, Apexart, New York, USA. [10]
References
[edit]- ↑ "DİLEK WINCHESTER". Retrieved 2026-09-17.
- 1 2 "Saha". saha.org.tr (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 2025-11-13. Retrieved 2026-09-14.
- ↑ Karaca, Banu (2020-08-01). "Art, Dispossession, and Imaginations of Historical Justice: Thinking with the Works of Maria Eichhorn and Dilek Winchester". Critical Times. 3 (2): 224–248. doi:10.1215/26410478-8517727. ISSN 2641-0478.
- 1 2 "March Meeting: Annual Art Convening in Sharjah". Sharjah Art Foundation. Retrieved 2026-09-12.
- ↑ Winchester, Dilek (2010). "Kentsel alanda sanatsal müdahale aracı olarak gösterimsel platformlar" (PDF).
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ↑ "Dilek Winchester". bienal.iksv.org. Retrieved 2026-09-14.
- ↑ "Ben Eastham on Sharjah Biennial 16 - Criticism". e-flux. Retrieved 2026-09-14.
- ↑ "Dilek Winchester. Sharjah Biennale 2025". universes.art (in German). Retrieved 2026-09-17.
- ↑ "Third Text". thirdtext.org. Retrieved 2026-09-14.
- 1 2 "apexart Exhibition: Apricots from Damascus". apexart.org. Retrieved 2026-09-14.
- ↑ Waldmeier, Martin (2016). The Artist as Translator (doctoral thesis). Goldsmiths, University of London.
- ↑ "Apricot City A4 - Depo Istanbul". 2011-09-12. Retrieved 2026-09-14.
- ↑ Madra, Yahya M. (2009). "Being in Neighbourhood". Contemporary Practices. 4: 190–195.