HDK-Valand - Academy of Art and Design / HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och design (2020-)

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Hold Your Head Up AND See Your Heroic-Self
(2020-10-19) Aycan, Nihan; University of Gothenburg/HDK-Valand - Academy of Art and Design; Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och design
this project is about a sculptural adornment… a sculptural adornment worth to be placed on the neck of Woman that shades her Goddess-hood…a wearable sculpture with its vigorous forms, reflecting all that life force of hers as a reminder of her powerful female body…a mirror to the mind, a medium for self-realisation through a nonverbal cue, the posture of power… this project is about a trope of shield… a shield that embraces the inner power of the female body, once detected by men and then sinked into the darkness…the darkness of silence, the darkness of violence, the darkness of being a prisoner of her own body, own rage and being projected as monstrous…a shield that cuts the silence of darkness and comes back to life on the Woman's neck… this project is about revising the old myth… revising the old myth of the snake-headed Medusa that has been repeated itself over centuries as a threat to the male gaze…revising the old myth and tell the true story in order to embrace the beautiful laughing Medusa again in each of us, as Women…