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La Femme sans tête ou La Danse du ventre (Nil Yalter, 1974)

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Nil Yalter, (Algerian wedding in France) Mariage algérien en France, 1977, photographs, drawings, painting, 80 x 60 cm

Nil Yalter (born 1938) is a Turkish contemporary feminist artist. She attended Robert College in Istanbul, Turkey and currently lives and works in Paris. Her work, which is included in many collections and museums, includes not only drawings and photographs, but also videos and performance art. In fact she is the first Turkish female video artist. Via Wikipedia

Born: January 15, 1938

Born in Egypt to a Turkish family, Nil Yalter grew up in Istanbul where she taught herself to paint. In 1965 she went to Paris to familiariz

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Nil Yalter Deniz Gezmis 1972

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- D’Apres "STIMMUNG"

(1973)

Nil Yalter's cycle D’Apres "STIMMUNG" was created in 1973 in Paris, immediately after a performance of Karlheinz Stockhausen's vocal work Stimmung. Stockhausen's composition — a commission by the city of Cologne, which was premiered in 1968 by the Collegium Vocale Cologne — is a significant work in the history of music. It is probably the first work by a Western composer to make use of overtones of the human voice.

In her seven-part assemblage, Yalter points to Stockhausen's strict formal schema and visualizes the names of gods called upon by the singers, from the Hindu Vishnu to the Aztec Ueueteotl to Jesus. The documentary, almost didactic arrangement and the slightly mocking references — "nails" and the "hair of Jesus" allude to the Catholic veneration of relics — could express a distancing: divine experience can no longer be conveyed to a Western audience. It is only possible to document the attempt, and the failure thereof.

Stockhausen's intercultural approach could have also appealed to Yalter for biographic reasons. The artist comes from a Turkish family. She was born in 1938 in Cairo and has lived in Paris since 1965. In the late '60s she turned to political art. Since the '70s she has been among the most important representatives of artistic feminism.

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Nil Yalter C’est un dur métier que l’exil / Exile is a hard job, 1976/2015

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My first important exhibition took place in 1973 at ARC, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Paris. I called it Topak EV I. The central theme of the show was the yourte. In 1971 I had gone back to Turkey, which was suffering severe repression at the time due to several recent political events. I became interested in the tents of the nomads and nomadic life in general. The nomads could no longer roam freely because the lands that formerly belonged to the community were now privately owned. The yourte symbolizes their freedom. Curiously enough, however, the women who build these round tents in the shape of a womb practically spend their whole lives inside of them, sheltered from the real world outside. From the time she´s a teenager, the woman spends her time decorating the tent and making it as beautiful as possible, this being considered an important attribute in a wife. A lot of prestige is given to the parents of a girl who gets married. The yourte is in fact symbolic of the relation of the father´s world to the husband´s.

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