Symbolic Revolution
200 x 100
readymade decorative cloth from İndia, linen, embroidery
2020
 
Women have been used as a symbol for the Turkish Republic, westernization, and modernization. 
 
They have been polarized and objectified as political women, as national teachers, as sexless Marxist women, as civilized women, as civilized wives, as comrades, as selfless women, as patriotic mothers and wives, as working women, as professional women, and as educated bourgeois women… and now? This list continues to lengthen. 
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