With Love Nieuw West 1
Participating artists: Müge Yilmaz & Rosa Smits
Public program: Kian Eslami
The first exhibition is focused on the power of communal creation, female connection and the language of symbolism.
Elibelinde by Müge Yilmaz
The wooden sculptures are inspired by the Kilim language of ancient Anatolian woven rugs and translated into a different material. The symbology is like a composed language that narrates stories of love, marriage, protection, nature and the evil eye. Elibelinde (hands on hips) is a symbol of the mother goddess, mother with child in womb, fertility, and abundance, invented by the women who would weave the kilims invented by the female weavers of kilims. Müge’s work examines the paradoxes around the concept of protection with focus on community, survival and belief. Through performances, photographs and installations she creates immersive atmospheres inspired by archeology, mythology and feminist science-fiction.
Codes of Creation
by Rosa Smits
This textile piece, initiated by Rosa Smits, was woven in collaboration with a group of Amazigh women from rural Morocco. Each piece has a unique shape and carries a self designed symbol, representing the unity of their creators, bonded through weaving and womanhood.
Love, growth, care, fertility, plants, jewelry, the Amazigh sign, connection - all these subjects appear symbolically in the piece. Rosa is intrigued by the social, tactile, and communicative nature of weaving. Driven by a fascination for societies that coexist harmoniously with each other and its environment, her work revolves around two profound questions: how to live and how to work together?
