FEMINIST ART – WOMEN IN WAR
This is an online art gallery to present feminist artists (including graphic artists) in conflict zones whose work is about human rights, especially women’s rights. You don’t have to be a woman to be feminist, a liberated man will do which is why we will include male artists. This section is continually upgraded.
GÖKHAN ASLAN
This courageous Turkish artist has presented a remarkable installation, first in Diyarbakir and in Istanbul’s Tüyap Art Show: women wearing black niqab move with chains round a body covered with a bloodstained sheet. This acute criticism of Fundamentalism as incarnated by Daesh/ISIS also shows up the Turkish government’s close relationship with this extremely misogynous and murderous terror group. Aslan has received death threats for his work.
DEENA MOHAMED
Meet Deena Mohamed’s cartoon superhero Qahera, a hijabi superhero who fights and vanquishes oppression.
Meet graphic designer Maya Zankoul from Lebanon who uses humour in her graphics to denounce the difficulties and daily upheavals of living in Beirut.
Estayqazat a feminist collective from Syria who seeks to empower women as in dividual agents and confront patriarchal predjudice, especially sexuality.
Kubra Khademi from Afghanistan, a performance artist who walked the street of Kabul wearing a metal structure which exaggerated breasts and buttock.
Shamsia Hassani, Afghanistan’s first and foremost street artist who declared: I want to colour over the bad memories of war.
While this is not exactly a war-zone, Natalya Dyu’s work shows the result on a daily urban and flippant way post-Communist society plunged into Western-style.
Meet graphic artist Ahmad Qatato from Jordan who launched “The Diary of a Muslim Girl”.
Carol Mann is a social anthropologist based in Paris, specializing in gender and war issues. She runs FemAid, an NGO dedicated to defending the rights and dignity of women and girls in war zones through educational and health projects.
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