2014, Blu-Ray, Color, 79’, German, English subtitles, Germany
Director: Claudia Richarz, Ulrike Zimmermann
“Showing a vulva frightens away bears, lions, makes wheat grow, calms storms and frightens devils. The devils run away. Vulva protects the world. Vulva is mighty, the one capable of all.” In a world where the visibility of female genital is not possible and acceptable, just like this description, directors Claudia Richarzand, Ulrike Zimmermann search the non sensational history of women’s body from 16th to 21st centuries. Celebrating the diversity of women’s body…
Each memory tells an intimate story; each collection presents us with the reality of containing an intimate story as well. The collection is akin to a whole in which many memories and stories of the artist, the viewer, and the collector are brought together. At the heart of a collection is memory, nurtured from the past and projecting into the future.
John Frederick Lewis is considered one of the most important British Orientalist artists of the Victorian era. Pera Museum exhibited several of Lewis’ paintings as part of the Lure of the East exhibition in 2008 organized in collaboration with Tate Britain.
Following the opening of his studio, “El Chark Societe Photographic,” on Beyoğlu’s Postacılar Caddesi in 1857, the Levantine-descent Pascal Sébah moves to yet another studio next to the Russian Embassy in 1860 with a Frenchman named A. Laroche, who, apart from having worked in Paris previously, is also quite familiar with photographic techniques.
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