Güler Ates

Home Performance, Series, 2014

Site-responsiveness is central to Ates’ work. She engages with architectural settings that bear the imprint of colonial or post-colonial histories, conducting extensive research into their pasts. These investigations inform not only the conceptual framing of her work but also material choices, from the fabrics used in costume to the colours that become visual anchors within her compositions. Through performance and photography, her veiled protagonists enact subtle gestures that evoke cultural duality and speak to both personal and collective memory.

She has developed projects in architectural sites such as the Victoria & Albert Museum (London), Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris), Leighton House Museum (London), Great Fosters (Egham), Royal Academy of Arts (London), City Palace (Udaipur, India), Huys te Warmond (Netherlands), and in various locations across Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).