Ece Batur

About

Ece Batur is a contemporary artist working across performance, sculpture, textile, and moving image. Her practice is informed by transnational feminist theory and investigates how systems of gendered violence, censorship, and cultural memory are inscribed in both bodily and domestic spaces. Through material experimentation and embodied gestures, she explores how trauma, resilience, and resistance circulate across generations and cultural boundaries.

Rooted in her Turkish background, Batur draws from the symbolic language of Anatolian kilims, oral traditions, and domestic rituals. Her work reflects on how femininity, care, and silence have been culturally constructed and politically weaponised, particularly within the context of Turkish society. By reactivating inherited forms such as lacework, storytelling, and textile-based crafts, she reclaims practices historically marginalised as feminine or decorative, reframing them as acts of defiance and preservation.

Working with materials such as human hair, clay, and fabric, Batur constructs intimate, tension-filled spaces where the body becomes both witness and site of resistance. Her installations and performances position vulnerability as a political strategy, inviting reflection on the thresholds between visibility and erasure, softness and control, memory and survival. Grounded in feminist solidarity that crosses national, cultural, and historical borders, her work refuses closure and instead invites collective witnessing and sustained attention.