Behind It Something Intimate

Eviner, Inci

ISBN 10: 6055815699 / ISBN 13: 9786055815691

Published by Dirimart, Istanbul, 2024

About this Item

This artist s book comprises selected drawings by Inci Eviner and the poetic texts she wrote in Büyükada, Istanbul, in 2023 2024, in a reflexive conversation with each drawing. Known for her work across various mediums such as drawing, video, performance, sculpture, and installation, Eviner, with this book, invites readers to explore her creative universe through her drawings and the accompanying texts that she crafted as if conversing with them. Published in two separate language editions, Turkish and English, the book is enriched by Eviner s design concept and Ruslan Abasov s design. Lying at the centre of Inci Eviner s creative practice, drawing, for the artist, serves both as a means of expressing the unconscious and a tool for exploring her concepts. It is a space where the interplay between the conscious and unconscious can unfold, revealing the complex entanglement between the societal and the psychic. It also serves as the foundation upon which she discovers and develops new ideas, forms, and spatial constructs. Rooted in this foundation and continuously evolving with a boundless visual language, her work questions and challenges the forms of social, historical, and discursive representations and the underlying norms behind them. In Behind It Something Intimate, Eviner engages in a dialogue with her drawings and expands the multi-layered world that shapes them in a textual space that she shares with the readers. Editors: Translator: 112 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Behind It Something Intimate
• Publisher: Dirimart, Istanbul
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 6055815699
• ISBN 13: 9786055815691
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New
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Synopsis

Behind It Something Intimate showcases İnci Eviner’s drawings alongside her poetic texts, revealing the inner landscapes where personal, political, and unconscious realms intersect through image and word.

About the Author

İnci Eviner (b. 1956, Ankara; lives and works in Istanbul) works with drawing, video and performance. Her works often begin with drawings and evolve into complex pieces that explore diverse visual languages, including art history, mythology and contemporary symbols. She represented Turkey at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019 and was the subject of a major retrospective in 2016 at the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art. Eviner’s solo exhibitions include the Drawing Center, New York (2015); Espace Chatelain, Brussels (2013); Musée d’Art, Paris (2011); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2009); MAC/VAL; and Vitry-sur-Seine (2009). Group exhibitions and biennials include the British Museum, London (2019–2020); Hayward Gallery, London (2018–2019); Liverpool Biennial (2018); Q21 Exhibition Space, Museums Quartier Wien (2018); Gwangju Biennial (2018); Municipal Museum of Jena (2018) and the 13th Istanbul Biennial (2013). She received the Sharjah Biennial 13 Prize in 2017. The artist has been invited to artist residencies, including Rauschenberg Foundation, Florida (2017); SAM Art Projects (2010); and Leube, Salzburg (2005). Eviner’s works have been included in international collections such as the Deutsche Bank Collection, Centre Pompidou Paris, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim New York, and TBA21 Vienna.