Gözde İlkin (b.1981, Kütahya, Turkey; lives and works in Istanbul) completed her BFA at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University painting department in 2004 and her MFA at Marmara University painting department in 2012. Gözde İlkin works on found domestic fabrics such as tablecloths, curtains, and bed sheets that are representative of social identity, and social processes and that have become objects of memory. Her motifs and drawings on fabrics depict today’s cultural information, political and social relationships, and gender issues. She traces nature to discover ways of belonging. Her forms that are inspired by nature track the healing and transforming effects through plants, animals, and humans are drawn closer together.