2026 Artist in Residence
May 6 - 31
Damla Tamer (born in Istanbul, Turkey) is a visual artist and educator living on the unceded Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh territories (Vancouver). Her practice engages with the intersections of textile crafts and contemporary studio practices, with a special focus on weaving. Her work is heavily invested in searching for a new ethics of time through the relationships between aesthetics and politics.
Her most recent exhibition focuses on tracing the rise of neoliberal authoritarianism in Turkey and its relation to global movements, the evolution of forms of civil protest and resistance, and the capacities and limits of language and representation in locating oneself in a world that is rife with shifts. Her ongoing research—shortlisted for the Shadbolt Fellowship in Arts and Humanities—explores the psychological space of Istanbul’s Çağlayan Courthouse, looking at how time moves within it and how aesthetics of solidarity actions take shape in and against legal institutions and practices.