Tarjama / Translation
Exhibition by ArteEast
at the Queens Museum of Art
May 10 – September 27 2009

Reshuffling the pertinence of geographical boundaries through the multivalent practices of translation. An unprecedented exhibition, featuring artist from the Middle East, Central Asia and its diasporas.

Attending artists: Ayad Alkadhi, Nazgol Ansarinia, Hamdi Attia, Lara Baladi, Yto Barrada, Esra Ersen, Khaled Hafez, Emily Jacir, John Jurayj, Pouran Jinchi, Gulsun Karamustafa, Bouchra Khalili, Almagul Menlibayeva, Farhad Moshiri, Rabih Mroue, Rahra Omarzad, Khalil Rabah, Michael Rakowitz, Khaled Ramadan, Solmaz Shahbazi, Wael Shawky, Mitra Tabrizian, Alexander Ugay, Yelena Vorobyeva & Viktor Vorobyev, Sharif Waked, Dilek Winchester, and Akram Zaatari.

Curated by Leeza Ahmady and Iftikhar Dadi, with Reem Fadda, Assitant Curator

For more information, please visit www.arteeast.org or www.queensmuseum.org

DİLEK WINCHESTER takes part in the Tarjama/Translation Exhibition

The Moon and Stars Project’s Summer Residency Program artist Dilek Winchester is back to New York. We are proud to announce Dilek’s participation at Tarjama / Translation Exhibition produced by ArteEast and Queens Museum of Art.

ON READING AND WRITING: 3 FIRST TURKISH NOVELS
By Dilek Winchester

The first three chapters of 3 different novels are copied from their original versions. These novels are assumed to be the first novels in Turkish and they are printed using Ottoman, Greek and Armenian alphabets, the average viewer can understand them only when translated into modern Turkish written in Latin script. The original versions are kept among the collections of Ars Aevi Museum of Contemporary Art in Sarajevo.

Dilek Winchester was born in Istanbul; studied in London and Berlin, and currently lives in Istanbul. Mistranslation, transliteration, literature, idiomatic expressions, narration, language pollution and emotional expressions are among the themes of her works. Her art offers a unique blend of different backgrounds as she collaborates with translators, actors, psychologists, psychodramatists and writers.

Selected exhibitions include:
Unjust Provocation, 2009: Hafriyat Karakoy, Istanbul. Group show curated by Canan Senol
Neighbours in Dialogue, 2008: Istanbul Collection for Ars Aevi, Galerija Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Save As… , 2008: Group show, curated by Derya Demir, Triennale Bovisa, Milano, Italy
How to put things together, 2007: Solo Show in Blumen Gallery, Leipzig, Germany
Unfinished, 2007: Group show curated by Beral Madra in Suma, Istanbul
Sahibinden Satilik, 2007: Group show, curated by Derya Yucel in Ortakoy, Istanbul
Neighbours in Dialogue, 2007: Group show, Istanbul collection for Ars Aevi, Contemporary Art Museum
Fatti e Finzioni della Venusta isola di San Servolo, 2006: Group show, curated by Irene Calderoni,
San Servolo, Venice

Commissions and Residencies
Pilotprojekt Gropiusstadt 2009, Residency, Berlin, 2009
Blumen Artists Residency, Leipzig. 2007
San Servolo, Venice, Artists' Residecy Programme, 2006
New York Artists’ Summer Residency Program, Moon and Stars Project. 2006
Artists’ commission. Stoke Newington Festival, London. (an anon event) 2002