WHAT IS A TURK?
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The “Turk” as the “other” in the European culture is described by Western
historians, journalists, travelers, anthropologists and diplomats who visited
Turkey in the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic: Rudyard Kipling, Edmondo
de Amicis (Constantinople, 1896), W.S. Monroe (
Turkey and the Turks,
1907
), Joe
E. Pierce (Life in a Turkish Village, 1964), David Hotham (
The Turks,
1972
),
Robert Kaplan (The Coming Anarchy On Our Planet, 1994), New Statesman
and
Society, 2 February 1996, and others. The project focuses on the arbitrariness
of cultural “stereotyping” and its persistence by juxtaposing photographs with
expressions of extreme ideas about the Turks.
What is a Turk? 2003
30 postcards in six concertino packs
digital
print on
paper, stamped envelope
each postcard 16 x 12cm
250 editions
What is a Turk? 2003
installation view
60 postcards front and back,
50 x 192cm
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Postcard and video installation, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC, 2010