Çok Güzel
As I walk around Izmir, I see shiny jewellery, glitter and huge dresses, I see lingerie and hyperfeminine women on ads.
The surroundings don’t match my beauty standards and neither does my appearance fit into theirs. By asking my Turkish audience what would suit me best and what would make me look good, I made them collaborators in visualising their perception of me.
In this performance and installation, I subject myself to standards of beauty that are foreign to me and attempt to engage in a dialogue with my audience.
The surroundings don’t match my beauty standards and neither does my appearance fit into theirs. By asking my Turkish audience what would suit me best and what would make me look good, I made them collaborators in visualising their perception of me.
In this performance and installation, I subject myself to standards of beauty that are foreign to me and attempt to engage in a dialogue with my audience.
This work was produced in the context of the 2022 MAPS research trip to Izmir in collaboration with the Darağaç collective.