“My work, it’s about being Muslim in this time and place and what that means.” Here’s how Australian artist Cigdem Aydemir challenges images of anti-Muslim hatred through the power of art
Cigdem Aydemir is an artist based in Sydney, Australia. Her work tackles social and political issues surrounding the representations of Muslims. It exposes assumptions about Muslim women and subversive representations of the ‘veil’. In this series, her work explores the female Muslim body, otherness, representation, identity and notions of beauty. Performances make up a large body of her work and is based on inquiry, scrutiny and amusement.
The other part of it is that art is a language for me. It’s poetry. I’m not thinking of how I can create a product, I’m thinking of how I can articulate a complexity as eloquently as possible.If the question is can art lead to change, yes I think it is possible, but not in the direct way that we think of change. An artwork has never stopped a war. But it can leave a sediment in the viewer’s mind that can lead to change, most often within themselves.
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