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"Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please;
they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under
circumstances directly found, given and transmitted from the past. The
tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain
of the living." - Karl Marx

artist statement
‘The notion that something is lost in translation has become complemented by the idea that something else is created in the progress that inhabits the so called “third space”. (Homi Bhabba, The Location of Culture)

To move between here and there creates problems to the institutions of power, religion as well as national. My work is based on our time and reality. My experience of living in the West as a person from the Third World. To study art is an unusual choice for a woman who comes from the Kurdish area of Turkey. As an artist that comes from a Muslim country and has experienced half my life as a refugee in Europe (Norway), I have a strong understanding and sympathy that puts me in this unique position called the ‘third space’. As an artist that comes from a Muslim country and has experienced half of my life in Europe I feel that I am placed within a ‘third space’. This position offers a duel vantage point from which I reflect and inform my research.

Through my work I want to draw out new ways of viewing and understanding the discourse of culture and identity. My work is about being female, the role and status of a woman within the Kurdish/ Islamic society and living with Islamic traditions within western culture. In my work I have created an awareness of my position and new ways of looking at feminism, culture and identity. Being in between two cultures is like being between past and present and belonging in both places and in neither. I have a strong understanding and sympathy of the problems that arise from the differences between generations and culture, such as honour killings. My aim is to question and creatively explore and research this ‘space’.

Through my research and being actively present in the development of my work means to make choices: to show your face or to hide it, to speak or to remain silent, to participate or not. This means the ability to profit from the possibilities of a globalized world, to cross borders and open doors to freedom of expression and knowledge.

Her Light Is Off

2006
Human hair
15mx9m

Her Light Is Off

2006
Human hair
detail

Her Light Is Off

2006
Human hair
detail

Her Light Is Off

2006
Human hair
detail

Her Light is Off

2006
Human hair
detail

16670

2007
Compact human hair (472,60kg)
1.20x1.20x1.20cm

Her Light is Off

2007
Human Hair

In My Room

2007
Human Hair

In My Shoes

2007
Feltet Human hair

Untitled

Hair Off The Human

2006
human hair