Name
Seda Mimaroğlu
Biography
Seda Mimaroğlu is a poet, writer, and artist from Istanbul with an academic background in law, literature, art history, and philosophy. Since 2007, she took part in many exhibitions and events with multimodal works and published in various outlets. In 2019, her collection of poetry, Loose Leaves, was released on audiotape by the Berliner Wanda imprint. Her book, Love Songs, was published in 2021 by Blue Figure Press. Seda Mimaroğlu lives and works in Berlin.
Category Tags / Research Areas
Artist Statement
An interplay of word, image, and sound; archival attention to the minutiae of everyday life; metaphors, symbols, a complexity that presents itself in vernacular; dramatic events offered in simple humanity. The references range from ancient philosophy to dancehall songs, which Mimaroğlu weaves into a personal rendering of moments and feelings through diverse media. Whether political oppression, questions of feminism, motherhood, class or sexual fluidity, the social and personal matters are engrained and implicit in the grammar of the works, and the autotheoretical stance takes its cue from actual or imagined dialogues with poets, artists, philosophers, and psychoanalysts. The transdisciplinarity of her practice is possible through continuing collaborations with artists, musicians, curators, and scholars.
sedamimaroglu.com
sedamimaroglu.com