Stories of Struggle: Istanbul Artist=?UTF-8?B?4oCZ?=s New Exhibition on 1915 Depicts Women Who Resisted

14:00, April 7, 2015

Aret Gıcır's second solo exhibition, Between Fire and Sword, will run from April 10 to May 9 at the Öktem & Aykut contemporary art gallery in Istanbul. 

Its title inspired by the writer Zabel Yesayan's depiction of the 1909 Cilicia massacres, Between Fire and Sword explores the irreversible rupture that took place in Anatolia one century ago. The artist attempts to approach the Catastrophe through the stories of Armenian women who struggled to protect their children, families, churches, schools and land by taking up arms and who resisted in order to stay alive in the period leading to 1915.  Read more... (396 words)

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