Hayv Kahraman

15 Jun-4 Jul 2020

Overview

In this new body of work, Kahraman explores the transition that happens between a normative human and the Other. Depicting contortionists, her figures are placed in seemingly impossible poses, attracting the voyeuristic gaze through an eroticisation and fetishisation of the Other. Yet their faces are undeterred; the gaze is tolerated. This interplay allows for the subjects to be both looked at and to 'look back at', subverting the colonizer’s power, and calling attention to the dehumanisation of the colonized. --- The exhibition can also be viewed on our online viewing room - https://pilarcorrias.viewingrooms.com - and digital platforms: Instagram, artsy, ocula and artnet.