Lily

This work addresses the erasure and invisibility of women's identity in the traditional world. While the colorful kilim motifs in the background symbolize a vibrant, deep-rooted, and dominant culture, the depiction of the woman in black and white illustrates how she is rendered colorless, silent, and pushed into the background within this colorful world. While the facelessness of the figure represents the invisibility of women within the social structure, the continuation of the background patterns across her body points to the fact that she is seen not as an individual with her own identity, but merely as a vessel carrying the culture. Through this contrast of color and colorlessness, the work narrates a woman's search for her own essence in the shadow of traditional burdens.