Deniz Pasha

Deity Series, 2025

Deniz Pasha’s multidisciplinary practice reflects on the experiences of the African diaspora, with a particular focus on how Black women’s bodies bear the weight of migration, labour, and representation. During her postpartum period, she turned inward, returning her attention to her own body and lived experiences, which sparked a resolute encounter with the body as a site of memory, change, and resistance. Informed by thinkers such as Hortense Spillers and Joy James, Pasha considers the body not solely as an object of fetishisation or gaze, but as a generative vessel, carrying layered and unresolved histories. Her work opens space for nuanced narratives of Black womanhood, situated within both Turkish contexts and broader global currents.