Ece Batur’s practice examines how the self absorbs, carries, and alters the structures that discipline it. Working across performance, moving image, textile, and installation, she approaches repetition as both a method and a material, using gesture to trace how memory, knowledge, and forms of discipline settle into the body over time. Repetition does not simply preserve what is inherited. It creates the possibility for an inherited gesture to shift, accumulate, or become misaligned through being performed again.

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Rooted in her Turkish cultural background, Batur engages with domestic labour and care as forms of embodied and intergenerational knowledge. Domestic gestures settle into the body through repetition, carrying forms of knowledge across generations. Within this vocabulary, care and control are not necessarily opposites. The gestures that sustain, protect, and nurture can also discipline, constrain, and demand. Her work stays within this ambiguity without seeking to resolve it.

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The body, in Batur’s practice, functions as an archive, carrying forms of knowledge that are not always consciously learned or chosen. She is interested in what happens when familiar gestures are performed again and again: what they retain, what they accumulate, and where they begin to change. Materials similarly carry the residues of contact, labour, and time, allowing memory to exist not only as something recalled, but as something physically held.

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Through repetition, Batur tests the instability of what appears fixed. Inherited gestures may be sustained, intensified, destabilised, or altered through their repetition. Care may become discipline; softness may carry weight; persistence may become difficult to distinguish from constraint. Her work considers whether change might emerge from within the gestures we continue to carry.