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…
Pera Museum, in collaboration with Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), is one of the main venues for this year’s 15th Istanbul Biennial from 16 September to 12 November 2017. Through the biennial, we will be sharing detailed information about the artists and the artworks.
Byzantine medical art was grounded in the Greco-Roman medicine transmitted by Hippocrates and Galen and new concepts introduced by such physicians as Oribasios of Pergamon, Aetius of Amida, Alexander of Tralles and Paul of Aegina.
This life-size portrait of a girl is a fine example of the British art of portrait painting in the early 18th century. The child is shown posing on a terrace, which is enclosed at the right foreground by the plinth of a pillar; the background is mainly filled with trees and shrubs.
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