Through her research-driven practice, Dilek Winchester (b. 1974) investigates how the printed word and the typographic space create a sense of belonging. Her interest in the communities that are formed through publishing spans from artists’ zines to the hybrid printing world in the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire. Her interests include the alphabet reform in Turkey, the symbolic meaning of the alphabets and the politics of translation. In her curatorial work, she examines artistic work shaped by the experience of exile and immigration. Her exhibitions include GLOSSOLALALA, Arter, Istanbul (2024); Self Determination: A Global Perspective, IMMA, Dublin (2023); The Futureless Memory, Kunsthaus Hamburg (2020); and This may or may not be a true story or a lesson in resistance, De Appel Curatorial Program, Amsterdam (2020). Winchester holds a BA from the Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design, London (1998) and an MA from Sir John Cass Department of Art and Design, London Metropolitan University (2002).