Müjde
Karaca
konkursbuch
Verlag Claudia Gehrke
PF 1621 - D-72006 Tuebingen, Tel. 0049(0) 7071 66551,
Mail:
office@konkursbuch.com
Müjde
Karaca, born 1981 in Bamberg, studied visual communication
at "Akademie der bildenden Künste" in Stuttgart. As
being a Turkey-German she worked much withe topic "home,
origin and identity".Whith her work "Almanyali-Germans" she
shows Turkish people, who live in different areas in
Germany, and let them tell their personal stories as being a
German. She won the 1st prize of the "Förderpreis
für Buchgestaltung" (a prize for book-design) of the
"Academy für bildende Künste (academ in
Stuttgart)" for her photographical work "Zinat-charms". Toda
she works communication designer and project organizer for
the ZKM ("Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie"/
center of art and media technology). .
Reize / Zinat
photographs & texts, phote book in high size, 24,5 x
32 cm, bound, 160 p., 29,90 Euros, ISBN
978-3-88769-385-5
photographs, design and graphics made by Müjde
Karaca.
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Women from different cultures and in different cultures are
presented in a portrait (each 3-pages-long). The women's
faces transform with taking off the headscarves. This is
always a surprise. Some of the women in the book never wore
a headscarf; they just put it on for the photos. Others wore
it because of religious and cultural reasons. Some women
wear them or not, because they want it so because of
religion or culture or just, because the think it makes
sense on some days, on some not. The women of the portraits
describe their relationship to veiling in short texts. These
texts are filled with stories and memories, e.g. the way the
grandmother used to fold the headscarf. In the texts are
many different positions, even women, who are completely
against headscarves, because it's a sign of compulsion. This
book isn't about allowed or forbidden, it's a try to give an
open view in a total different culture and total different
beauty-idols. The book's also about the freedom to chose of
women, if they want or don't want to wear
headscarves
". Because of the differences between the European culture and my Turkish origin and the Muslim religion, which I grew up with in my family since I had been born, I stand in a daily journey between those two cultures. I visualized this journey with the portraying of women of my own family. From thereon came the idea to this project: to show women of all cultures and origins with and without headscarves. Every day, we see women with veiling. Which feelings happen to the viewer? What do we think? Which prejudgment do we have? How do the women feel?" Müjde Karaca
review
(German language) Stuttgarter Zeitung 8.5.2010 (pdf)
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