Book

A publication accompanies Nilbar Güreş’s exhibition A Kiss on the Eyes, hosted by the Türkiye Pavilion at the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Alongside texts that closely engage with the artist’s practice and the exhibition, the book also includes a selection of poems, which address the concepts of subtlety and care at the heart of the exhibition’s conceptual framework across different contexts. Offering layered readings of Nilbar Güreş’s imagery, the texts in the book situate A Kiss on the Eyes within the continuity of the artist’s practice. The poems in the selection, in turn, foreground concepts such as displacement, memory, fragility, discrimination, plurality, and relationality, in line with the themes of gender, migration, and belonging, which are central to the artist’s practice.