On the fourth episode of CONVERSATIONS, independent curator Aslı Seven, art writer and editor Cristina Sanchez-Kozyreva and artist Leyla Gediz talk about Cosa Mentale, Gediz's first solo show in Paris with the gallery at L'Atlas. 

The exhibition gathers recent works spanning from paintings to video and site-specific interventions and explores the artist’s ongoing research on contemporary painting, embracing notions such as displacement by addressing them through the lens of her personal life broadened to collective narratives.

Aslı Seven is an independent curator and writer based between Istanbul and Paris. Her research and projects focus on infrastructural forms of violence embodied within landscape and built environment, with an emphasis on fieldwork, ficto-criticism and collaborative artistic processes. She is the recipient of CNAP & Cité Internationale des Arts grant and residency program (2020-21). She holds a doctoral level degree in Artistic Research from ENSA Bourges and EESI Poitiers-Angouleme in France (2019). She is a member of AICA and a collaborator with Independent Curators International.

Cristina Sanchez-Kozyreva is an art writer recently based in Europe where she recently moved after living in Asia for 12 years. She is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Pipeline (2011), an independent, thematic, contemporary art magazine based in Hong Kong, as well as the editor of Curtain and Curated! Additionally, she regularly contributes to various other publications in Asia, Europe, and the US.