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A decade ago, Ilkin became aware of the reciprocity between the organic and the political, and how ineptly we live in both realms separately. She started collecting plants whose shape and extracts she now often incorporates in her iconography as seen recently in the solo exhibition As the Roots Spoke, the Cracks Deepen (Mac/Val Ivry, 2019) and the group show Rooted Beings (Wellcome Collection, Londres, 2022) which included a series of works produced for the 13th Gwangju Biennial, Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning.

In these series, the humanoid figures of her embroideries expand and interconnect …