Nil Yalter — À propos — Slash Paris

Born in Cairo, Egypt, Nil Yalter has spent most of her life between Turkey and Paris.

Since her arrival in the early 1960s, she has established herself as one of the pioneers of feminist video art in France, and has produced a significant body of work focusing on issues of minority identity.

The question of exile is almost a permanent feature of her work, and brings together a number of issues, including the conditions of exiled families, particularly women. Remembering her own experience, she is conducting both artistic and sociological research using tools such as photography, video, drawing and text to question the identity and condition of ’immigrant women’ during the 1970s. Throughout her career, she has sought to materialise the memory of communities.

Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès, Paris