This body of work brings together two sculptural installations, Artificial Intimacies and The Evil Eye, reflecting on ancestral knowledge, femininity, and the politics of protection. Both draw from domestic rituals and symbolic artefacts rooted in Turkish heritage. Artificial Intimacies reimagines the artist’s grandmother’s lacework through synthetic plastic forms encased in vitrines, proposing an archive of feminised labour reactivated as speculative relics. The work questions how domestic crafts like sewing and embroidery carry political weight through silence and repetition. The Evil Eye distills the nazar amulet into a minimal sculpture of wood, glass, and paper, evoking thresholds of gaze and belief. It explores how protection is gendered and aestheticised. Together, they offer a feminist archaeology of care and resistance.

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