Nil Yalter — Exile is a hard job — Berthet – Aittouarès Gallery — Exhibition — Slash Paris

Past: November 2 → December 23, 2023

Nil Yalter, Lion d’or Biennale de Venise 2024 — Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès La galerie Berthet-Aittouarès accueille depuis début novembre une exposition de Nil Yalter, figure d’un art engagé et ancré dans la société dont elle observe les ruptures et les mises au ban. Tandis que la Biennale de Venise s’apprête à lui décerner le Lion d’Or 2024 pour l’ensemble de sa carrière, cette exposition constitue une entrée bienvenue dans cet oeuvre que le Mac Val remettait à l’honneur en 2019 avec une très belle rétrospective.

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.

The programme of our exhibition is based around The headless woman, a video performance from 1974, one of her main feminist works, an edition of which entered the Frac collection in 2007.