Gamze Şanlı is a diasporan Turkish and Cypriot multidisciplinary artist and performer. She holds a Combined Honours BA in Turkish & Greek Studies from King’s College London and SOAS, and an MA in Human Rights from UCL. Her craft weaves folklore and mythology, abolition and political resistance, death and witchcraft. Moving through different mediums, including experimental film and performance, documentary, illustration, embroidery, poetry and music, she reimagines and reframes the world with a queering, decolonial lens.
She is also in the programming team of the London Short Film Festival and MENA Film Festival, and is part of the Migrants in Culture cohort for Saturday School, a creative lab in border abolition. She frequently works on projects within the intersection of migration and queerness in Belgium as part of Queers on the Move. Şanlı is a founding member of the multilingual folk music group ‘Janatolia’ and is the art and activism director of the SWANA collective Full Potential. Having worked in Erbil, Istanbul, and Athens, she is now based in London.
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