Kezban Arca Batıbeki

Room With Out a View, 2014, mixed media on wooden panel, 170 x 106 cm

Küçük İskender writes in his book: “Each of us is the sum of our memories. The lives of artists guide us in interpreting their works, understanding their references, and imagining how far the roots of their imagination extend.”

For me, working on ”Room With Out a View” meant precisely this. It became a window opening onto the world of women—and, in a sense, onto the women within my own world. In this context, the “view” represents so many things: women relinquishing their existence, individuality, and sense of self in order to preserve the comfort they possess or to rise in social status; imprisoning themselves within their own cages; and waiting there until they are reduced to shadows and eventually disappear…