Danko Stjepanovic
Artwork Details:
Artist(s)
Hayv Kahraman
Title
Identification: Facial Hair
Date
2016
Medium(s)
Oil on linen
Dimensions/Duration
63.5 x 218.5 x 8 cm
Photo Credit
Identification: Facial Hair
Hayv Kahraman’s extensive body of work is one of resistance and receptivity. It is also one in which the intricate phenomenology of architecture, memory and gender are in concert. This is most strikingly rendered in the incisions Kahraman makes in the surface of her canvasses, such as in Identification: Facial Hair (2016). The six portraits represented here are repeated by Kahraman forensically, each identical face proffering differing hair styles and facial hair, appearing as wary taxonomies of lives in search of disguise and necessitating state scrutiny.
*Currently exhibited at Aranya Art Center
