Ipek Duben: The Skin, Body, and I

?pek Duben: The Skin, Body, and I is the first comprehensive publication focusing on the artist ?pek Duben (b. 1941, Istanbul). The book chronicles her life and work from the 1980s to the present, exploring gender, male violence, displacement, migration, and excessive consumption. Edited by Vas?f Kortun, it lays forth angles previously uncharted, branching out from local, regional, and international readings to fully contextualize Duben's practice. In addition to an extended interview between Kortun and the artist, it includes essays by Marianne Hirsch, Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, and I??n Önol, along with a record of a roundtable discussion on modernism and the art of the 1980s held in conjunction with Duben's solo show in Maçka Sanat Galerisi, Istanbul, in 1991. The texts address how Duben's practice simultaneously engages and breaks with local and Western canons, her manifold explorations of women's embodiment, and her "in-betweenness" in the socioeconomic, political, and artistic contexts of both Turkey and the United States, where she has lived for extended periods.

?pek Duben: The Skin, Body, and I is titled after Duben's exhibition at Salt Beyo?lu in 2021-22. Copublished by Mousse and Salt (Istanbul), it offers an in-depth survey of the artist's oeuvre spanning more than four decades.