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Nil Yalter lives and works in Paris, FR

 

For over five decades, Nil Yalter has used a Portapak video recorder and, more recently, a smartphone camera, along with photographs, drawings, installations, and writings, to conduct sociocritical research.

Born in Cairo and raised in Turkey, the self-taught artist immigrated to France in 1965, where she continues to live in political exile to this day. Her paradisciplinary approach places undocumented or misrepresented and underrepresented voices not only at the center of her art but also at the core of society.

In Yalter’s installation La Roquette, Prison de Femmes [La Roquette, Women’s Prison, 1974–75], we learn about carceral sexism in the French prison-industrial complex. The Paris prison La Petite Roquette, for example, served until its 1974 closure as a state infrastructure for punishing women who claimed bodily autonomy or who had fought against France’s anti-Communist regimes during World War II and after.

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