art and culture

10:42

Women rebuild a life with their words. Women being completely different from men for their language used in the literature, become “invisible” in the world of literature. In fact, this world needs women who write in their own window with their native language.

09:54

“I collected my notes by intuition says that I should point to a beginning rather than an ending for a ‘last sentence’… It was as if a voice that wanted to come to life, an image seeking its voice, a story that wanted to get full all in one breath was waiting for me.” Author Aslı Erdoğan says in her book entitled ‘Even silence is no longer yours’. Atlas Arslan is also one of those who take to the roads and puts his signature to a beginning after an ended story; after the death of her grandmother. She has written the stories of eight women in her book entitled, “My Grandmother’s Sisters”

08:50

“Caricature magazines produce comics by using a visual language that reminds us of our victimization and never strengthens us. The magazines were able to take an opposing stance on all issues, but they could not produce a comic against heterosexism and sexism. But humor is nothing like that. Humor can exist by moving away from the sovereign and producing humor against the sovereign. I think the caricature must have a political concern. The caricature should have a problem with the ruling power. Otherwise, it might be funny but it wouldn't be funny humor, it wouldn't be a caricature. The drawings wouldn’t have satire.”

16:32

Painting something on the walls goes back a long time in human history. In modern times, paintings on the walls of cities have become contemporary art. Aslınur Ulus is one of the women who fearlessly perform mural art on cranes and scaffolds.