Ayşe İdil İdil is an artist based in Istanbul and Rotterdam. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The artist researches alternative forms of togetherness and bonding as well as how memories are constructed and preserved. Her first solo show, An absent door, always open (2018), was exhibited at poşe. Her work has been published online and in print. She has participated in the Arter Research Programme, Arter, İstanbul; Devir, Galeri5, İstanbul; and the Castro Studio Program, Rome. She was part of the research project Memory and Arts (2018–2021) and its accompanying publication, Talks on Memory and Arts (2020) by Truth Justice Memory Center in Turkey. She has hosted radio shows at—and organised events with—independent internet radio station Modyan, and she is a co-founder of Garp Sessions, a research residency that has been prioritising collective learning, thinking and digesting since 2019 in the North Aegean, Turkey.
Betül Aksu (b. 1990, İzmir) explores how boundaries appear in everyday life. She focuses on notions of familiarity, repetition and categorisation, in addition to the influence of bureaucratic infrastructures on our relationship with movement, freedom and language. The artist is interested in the collaborative modes of working that initiate dialogues about precarious living and working conditions in the art world.
Aksu participated in the SAHA Studio residency (2024) in İstanbul; the BAK Fellowship for Situated Practice (2023–2024) at BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht; the Istanbul Biennial Production and Research Programme at IKSV (2022); and the School of Commons Research Residency (2021–2022). In 2023, she founded sezon, an independent art space based in İzmir that explores the politics and poetics of change. Her recent solo exhibitions include presentations at Permessus at AVTO, İstanbul (2024), and hold, place, transfer repeat at Material, Zurich (2024).
Okyanus Çağrı Çamcı (b. 1996, İzmir) studied painting at Dokuz Eylül University, graduating in 2022. Her works deal with gender, queerness, family, the sense of belonging and the struggle for survival. She has been featured in various projects and magazines.