'Değmesin Yağlıboya'

  • Printmaking
  • 100 cm x 120 cm x 120 cm

Safiye Otman

İstanbul
This is a warning: A child who has not yet chosen his toy should not be made to wear a wedding dress. A life whose painting has not yet been completed should not be given the role of “woman”. Oil painting should not touch it, because this painting belongs to childhood. It defends that a girl who reaches for a brush for the first time has the right to draw her own life. But society takes the brush from her hands and forces her destiny onto a canvas where others will draw it. “It is a boy, it takes.” “It is a girl, it is given.” These words are not brush strokes, they are stains. This painting is the color of silent screams. It is the mirror of the oppression that touches a body that has not yet grown up, the culture that buries childhood with weddings. We say: Children should not be silent, nor should this painting remain incomplete. Give them the brush. Let them paint their own stories. And please… let oil painting not touch it.

Details

  • Height 100 cm
  • Width 120 cm
  • Depth 120 cm
  • Category Printmaking

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₺30.000,00
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About the Artist

For me, art is not merely expression; it is a form of liberation, resistance, and making the invisible visible. Each layer echoes the voices of women silenced throughout history. My understanding of art is to fly and never land on earth. Because freedom lies beyond borders, in that boundless space freed from gravity. I depict the multilayered state of being a woman: a veil covering a wound, a hidden cry, or light overflowing from memory… Each of my works transcends an individual narrative and rewrites the collective female memory. Art cannot be liberated without women being liberated. My practice is based on giving voice to the silent, eyes to the invisible, and a voice to the silenced. Because both art and life multiply with women. And I speak from within that multiplication.

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