Nil Yalter, MOT International
MOT International presents challenging work by Nil Yalter, a pioneer of the 1970s French feminist-art movement
Nil Yalter Harem, 1979. video installation. Courtesy of the artist and MOT International, London & Brussels
MOT International Director Chris Hammond, who has exhibited contemporary greats from Jeremy Deller to Sarah Lucas, hosts artist Nil Yalter’s first solo show in London, which grapples with themes of gender, displacement and social identity.
Nil Yalter biography
Born in Cairo, educated in Istanbul, and working in Paris, Nil Yalter explores how female identity is formed: not by blood or heritage, but by continuously evolving social relations. Yalter constructs installations comprising of videos, photographs and drawings, to form complex micro histories of her female subjects.
MOT gallery London exhibition
The exhibition will include seminal works from the 1970s such as Rahime, Kurdish woman from Turkey, and one of the most famous films by Nil Yalter, Harem. “Incisive critical portraits of the spaces women occupy”, these works interrogate female experience in a male-dictated labour market.
With work recently acquired by Tate Modern, and acclaim at the 2014 Gwangju Biennale, this is the perfect time to rediscover Nil Yalter’s work at MOT International, Bond Street, which is as illuminating and provocative today as it was in the 1970s.
Nil Yalter biography
Born in Cairo, educated in Istanbul, and working in Paris, Nil Yalter explores how female identity is formed: not by blood or heritage, but by continuously evolving social relations. Yalter constructs installations comprising of videos, photographs and drawings, to form complex micro histories of her female subjects.
MOT gallery London exhibition
The exhibition will include seminal works from the 1970s such as Rahime, Kurdish woman from Turkey, and one of the most famous films by Nil Yalter, Harem. “Incisive critical portraits of the spaces women occupy”, these works interrogate female experience in a male-dictated labour market.
With work recently acquired by Tate Modern, and acclaim at the 2014 Gwangju Biennale, this is the perfect time to rediscover Nil Yalter’s work at MOT International, Bond Street, which is as illuminating and provocative today as it was in the 1970s.
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| What | Nil Yalter, MOT International |
| Where | MOT International, 72 New Bond Street , London, W1S 1RR | MAP |
| Nearest tube | Bond Street (underground) |
| When |
06 Feb 15 – 28 Mar 15, Open Tuesday – Saturday 10 – 6 |
| Price | £Free |
| Website | Click here for more details |