* Halil KOYUTURK (20th–21st centuries) - Lot 82

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* Halil KOYUTURK (20th–21st centuries) - Lot 82
* Halil KOYUTURK (20th–21st centuries) Trans Woman with a Cigarette Black-and-white photograph Unsigned Dimensions: 20 x 28 cm A catalog will be provided to the buyer. The Helenbeck sisters discovered this Turkish photographer at the Rencontres d’Arles, where he was exhibiting. They presented his work in the 2006 exhibition “Très chère chair.” Halil Koyutürk’s photojournalistic work in Turkey shifts the focus from the body as a cultural medium to the visibility of sexual identity. Made-up skin, adorned and concealed bodies of Turkey’s transvestites and transsexuals, who suffer deeply in their own bodies and endure daily exclusion, overcrowding, and social segregation. The artist seeks to denounce political hypocrisy, commercial exploitation, and the degradation of the human body—particularly as seen in his images of street children who are abandoned, addicted to drugs, and forced into prostitution. In 2009 at the Maison des Métallos in Paris during “The Season of Turkey,” which featured 400 events on Turkish art in France.
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