First comprehensive monograph: in-depth survey of İpek Duben's oeuvre spanning more than four decades.
The book chronicles her life and work from the 1980s to the present, exploring gender, male violence, displacement, migration, and excessive consumption. Edited by Vasıf Kortun, it lays forth angles previously uncharted, branching out from local, regional, and international readings to fully contextualize Duben's practice. In addition to an extended interview between Kortun and the artist, it includes essays by Marianne Hirsch, Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, and Işın Önol, along with a record of a roundtable discussion on modernism and the art of the 1980s held in conjunction with Duben's solo show in Maçka Sanat Galerisi, Istanbul, in 1991. The texts address how Duben's practice simultaneously engages and breaks with local and Western canons, her manifold explorations of women's embodiment, and her "in-betweenness" in the socioeconomic, political, and artistic contexts of both Turkey and the United States, where she has lived for extended periods.
Published following the eponymous exhibition at Salt Beyoğlu in 2021-22.
Ipek Duben (born 1941 in Istanbul) is a Turkish multi-media artist who works with books and installations, sculpture, painting and video art. Her works focus on notions of identity, gender, migration and cultural prejudices.
