Özge Topçu 

Columns

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2015

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These drawings are approaching to identity building of republican Turkey based on iconic images in the early times of Turkish Republic's publication and eximining the didactic codes of society engineering which is realized in an attempt to build new national identity in that era.

In there, we are seeing dynamic, assertive and modern woman body examples which are representing the new face of new country. The images are recunstructing the "liaising" and "movement" ideals while pointing repeatition, iteration notions which feel epic and ritmic features of "liaising" and "movement" ideals and then turning them into columns as a constructive elements.