Soul in The Thread
Nisan Yetkin
Exhibition Opening at The Alchemy Experiment.
Join us for the opening of Nisan Yetkin’s new exhibition: Soul In the Thread.
Drinks, documentary and live spoken-word.
Persecution and resilience, erasure and struggle, unpaid, forced and unrecognised labour characterise women’s history. The feminine or anything perceived as such was gazed at rather than understood. An archetype to either worship or annihilate, use or protect, love or hate. Often, the two extremes can go hand in hand. Love Madonna and kill the whore (love her first, too). Soul in the Thread: Codes Past and Present, invites you on a visual odyssey into the history of women’s struggle and creative expression in the face of adversity.
Using embroidery as a tool for storytelling, Soul in the Thread echoes the carpet weavers, who, to this day, are overwhelmingly women who use motifs to express their deepest desires, wishes, and burdens, in often exploitative work conditions.
It is also a radical stance against a fully digital, crypto-capitalist art market driven by investments rather than substance.
18+ |The tapestry contains some sexually explicit images but isn’t overly graphic.
Partially Wheelchair accessible (Toilets are not)
Pay as you can
Doors open at 7pm - Alchemy Experiment (157 Byres Rd, Glasgow G12 8TS)