Irmak Dönmez
Maze Runner
- Year
- 2023
- Type
- Wall sculpture
- Collection
- SIR Collection
Editorial note
A maze offers a way through space while also regulating movement. In Maze Runner, porous rings both enclose and provide passages for pink, insect-like bodies. A folded organic form occupies the centre, while smaller figures extend beyond the circular structure. Together they suggest an arrangement that resists a single body or a fixed hierarchy. Read this way, the work presents the body as a meeting place for desire, vulnerability and the possibility of escape.
The artist’s practice
Martch Art Project describes Dönmez’s ceramic-based practice through body politics and gender. Her fragmented, hybrid and transforming organic forms question the cultural meanings assigned to bodies, drawing on feminist and queer thought.
Source: Martch Art Project.
A closer look.
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