DANTE & ISTAKOZ
Ses, Zift, Vitrin; Voice, Vitrine, Tar by Çağla Özbek
In Voice, Vitrine, Tar: Unreliable Narrators from Archive to Memoir, Fiction to the Visual Arts, writer and researcher Çağla Özbek pursues ‘unreliable narration’ as an effective construct in revisiting feminist archives and imaginations, providing an invaluable method in doubling down on the critical breaks between recorded history and lived reality not only within the bounds of fiction writing, but also in visual arts and archival tendencies. Locating unreliable narration as a critical strategy extending outside the realm of literature which contests both linear history-making, the works of leading contemporary artist Hale Tenger are examined, pursuing possible unreliable narrators in them while making the argument that these visual narratives (which are often accompanied by reflective surfaces such as glass, vitrines, mirrors and puddles) deftly shed light on the tension between historiography and artistic imagination by pointing to the deep rifts between written history and the l Show More
