Fatma Belkis

Born in 1985, lives and works in Istanbul, Turkey

Fatma Belkis’s installations and films are created in collaboration with artists and researchers close to the artist. Her works attempt to analyse the tensions between the collective and individuality, between emancipation and attachment. They question the weight of history and culture on the potential construction of an identity and political commitment, the possibility of freedom in a world of constant, vital interdependence.

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residency

11.01.21 – 31.03.21

100-Days Residency,
in Clermont-Ferrand

01.11.20 – 30.11.20

100-Days Residency,
in Clermont-Ferrand

09.01.24 – 24.02.24

Intramural residency,
in Clermont-Ferrand
in partnership with La Tôlerie

encounter

23.03.21, 17:00

100-Days Residency,
in Clermont-Ferrand

During her residency, Fatma Belkis made a talk for the students at the Art School of Clermont-Métropole.
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exhibition

24.02.24, 19:00

Exhibition,
in Clermont-Ferrand
in partnership with La Tôlerie

Your worst friend

Fatma Belkis is a Turkish artist who explores the complexity of emotional relationships. She was previously in residency in Clermont-Ferrand as part of Artistes en résidence’s 100-day residency-program in 2020-2021— a period strongly constrained by the start of the health crisis. Artistes en résidence and La Tôlerie therefore decided to invite the artist to continue the research begun at that moment and share it with a public that the artist was unable to meet during her last stay in Clermont-Ferrand.
Through a body of sculptures, drawings and installations, Your worst friend explores the dark side of friendship. How does one manage emotional dependence, friend breakups, or emotions such as resentment, anger, disappointment, jealousy? The exhibition is constructed in the style of a child's game that manipulates, assembles, distorts or even damages objects with an evident transitional role. We come across pieces of parquet from the artist's childhood bedroom, hybrid prostheses that are both reassuring and disturbing, as well as an imaginary-unicorn-friend from which the artist symbolically seeks to detach herself. For the publication that accompanies the exhibition, the artist invited friends to contribute to her reflection on childhood as a determining moment for our future relational modes.The show is thus a polyphonic exhibition that mixes the interior and exterior voices that shape what and who we are.

Fatma Belkis' residency and exhibition are organized in partnership by Artistes en résidence and La Tôlerie, with the support of SAHA Association.
Artistes en résidence is supported by Clermont Auvergne Métropole, Ministère de la Culture - DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Conseil départemental du Puy-de-Dôme and Ville de Clermont-Ferrand.
La Tôlerie is supported by Ville de Clermont-Ferrand, Ministère de la Culture - DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.