Undressing (2006)

Beschreibung
„During this video performance, the artist uncovers each layer she wears on her head, uttering the names of women she lived with, thus carrying the biographical experience of daily life into this locally and internationally politically charged topic. The work was produced as a reaction to post-9/11 Islamophobia, especially that targeting women during a period in which anti-immigrant groups in Europe used “the covered thus disempowered” Muslima figure to justify their racist politics. It unravels the Vienna and Istanbul-based artist’s potential to position herself looking from here to there and there to here, a potential that enables her to pass beyond limited geographical borders in her conceptualization.“

Mehr Inhalte und die gesamte Video-Performance
https://www.nilbargures.org/undressing