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Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. ARTUN, DENIZ - SEYDA CETIN - EBRU ESRA SATICI (Authors) I - You - They. A Century of Artist Women. Curated by Deniz Artun. Istanbul: Mesher / Vehbi Koc Vakfi, 2021. 4to., 396 p., color ills. Printed to 750 copies. In English. Original binding. New ISBN: 9786059606264 CATALOG: Painting & Sculpture KEYWORDS: History of art Turkish painting Woman Sculpture photography I-You-They: A Century of Artist Women features a selection of works by artist women who lived and worked in Turkey between roughly the 1850s and the 1950s. Realized under the patronage of Cigdem Simavi and curated by Deniz Artun, the exhibition derives its name from one of Sukran Aziz?s exhibited works. The exhibition not only recognizes each woman, most of whom could not realize themselves and therefore were overlooked and neglected by art history, but also searches for the grounds for making a collective ?we? I-You-They points to ?another? time where all women and works that remained outside the straight lines drawn from a name, group or institution towards one another are remembered and told and presents these artist women with a ?century? of their own. The exhibition spreads across three floors of the Mesher building with 232 works by 117 artists. The entrance floor ?I? is for unsung women who are only faced with their mundane existence in the mirror. Mirrors placed in different corners of the exhibition space are meant to catch a glimpse of more than one face or facet of a single woman. Remembering that there were moments when women deliberately erased or scratched their own names from history, these mirrors also work as a ?magnifying? medium held up to those who failed to reflect the sparks of their creativity on history. The first floor ?You? offers an encounter with the soft and unifying other and calls out for children as the primary ?you?s. Most of the exhibited portraits and self-portraits are selected to contemplate the experience of motherhood and subjectivity, the definition of family and compassion, the power of creativity and immortality. ?You? also juxtaposes the sanctity of motherhood with the sensuality of nudity. The second floor ?They? casts a look at women through the eyes of others. Flowers, especially when they are in a vase, are evocative of all the adjectives attributed to women: emotional, vulnerable, amateur-spirited, ordinary, domestic and decorative. Expected to depict the safe and the elegant, many artist women were able to express themselves only by painting flowers in a vase. Therefore, flowers scattered all around the top floor of the exhibition without favoring any one artist or work over another, offer an alternative to a schematic family tree and a linear art history. I-You-They does not claim to write this history. On the contrary, it recalls and reminds us that this history to be written is not singular, but plural. It is a call to a ?we? in and through which each woman and each work can construct its very own history. Artists: Naile Akinci, Nukhet Aksoy, Maide Arel, Hale Asaf, Perran Berrunnisa Atamdemir, Julide Atilmaz, Can Ayan, Nese Aybey, Sukran Aziz, Hatice Sahiye Barlas, Iraida Barry, Behice Nuri, Saime Belir, Belkis Mustafa, Lerzan Bengisu, Sabiha Bengutas, Nimet Berdan, Aliye Berger, Semiha Berksoy, Mevhibe Meziyet Beyat, Deniz Bilgin, Zerrin Bolukbasi, Zabelle C. Boyajian, Sabiha Bozcali, Halet Cambel, Refia Edren Ciray, Nevin Cokay, Hamiye Colakoglu, Gul Derman, Didar Tahsin, Sukriye Dikmen, Tiraje Dikmen, Guzin Duran, Ayhan Durruoglu, Afife Ecevit, Nazli (Emin) Ecevit, Efruz Cemil, Melahat Ekinci, Esma Ekiz, Emine Semiyye Hilmi, Selma Emiroglu, Ozden Akbasoglu Ergokcen, Nebahat Erkekli, Mari Ertoran (Kaloyan), Semiha Es, Esma Ibret Hanim, Eren Eyuboglu, Fatma Saime Cenap, Seniye Fenmen, Suhendan Firat, Bilge Friedlaender, Lina Gabuzzi, Filiz Ozguven Galatali, Ruzin Gercin, Mari Gerekmezyan, Vildan Gizer, Nevide Gokaydin, Beyza Gonensay, Bedia Guleryuz, Hatice Suleyman, Hayriye Nuri, Seta Hid.