Leyla Yenirce finds her voice in the complex resonant spaces she creates, often working collaboratively, staging performances, incorporating found footage into her videos or appropriating images that are visible through dense layers of paint in her works on canvas. Yenirce draws on an archive of films and photographs that deal with figurations of resistance and aspects of military, media and cultural structures of dominance. Her process of collecting testifies to the widespread circulation of images depicting women in resistance, while also suggesting Yenirce's own media-influenced relationship with the country of her birth, Kurdistan.

Yenirce has been described as a cultural theorist, filmmaker, musician, painter performer and installation artist, essentially combining all of the aforementioned mediums in her artistic practice. It is precisely her willingness to transcend the boundaries of set disciplines that enables the artist to unite what is often mutually exclusive: feminism and war, pop culture and genocide, genuine longing and detached irony.

Capitain Petzel is looking forward to Leyla Yenirce‘s first solo exhibition at the gallery, opening on 4 November 2023.