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Şükran Moral (born in 1962 In
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,
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) is a Turkish artist, best known for her performances, videos and installations. During the 80's and 90's, she wrote poetry and worked as a journalist and art critic in Turkey. Moral currently lives and works in
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and
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.


Early years

Şükran Moral was born in 1962 in
Terme Terme (formerly spelled ''Termeh''; Ancient Greek: Thèrmae, Θέρμαι) is a municipality and district of Samsun Province, Turkey. Its area is 548 km2, and its population is 71,092 (2022). Terme is located on Terme River, about 5 k ...
, Samsun. She has three brothers and one sister. Her father refused to allow Moral to attend middle school, insisting that she works in a tailors shop. However, with her mother's help, she secretly started attending middle school. Moral graduated from high school despite having to deal with
domestic violence Domestic violence is violence that occurs in a domestic setting, such as in a marriage Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognised union between people called spouses. It establishes r ...
and
peer pressure Peer pressure is a direct or indirect influence on peers, i.e., members of social groups with similar interests and experiences, or social statuses. Members of a peer group are more likely to influence a person's beliefs, values, religion and beh ...
. Moral graduated from the Department of Fine Arts in the Faculty of Education at Ankara University. In 1989, she moved to Italy and studied again at the
Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma The Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma is a public tertiary academy of art in Rome, Italy. It was founded in the sixteenth century, but the present institution dates from the time of the unification of Italy and the capture of Rome by the Kingdom ...
, where she graduated from the painting section in 1995.


Artistic career

Moral's area of interest have mostly been the negative effects of religion on women, the mentally ill and disordered and the alienation and exclusion of immigrants, Transsexuals, and Prostitutes. In 1997, she made a performance at the Museum of Contemporary Art Workshop
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, with the title "Museum & Morgue", where she transformed the museum into a
morgue A morgue or mortuary (in a hospital or elsewhere) is a place used for the storage of human corpses awaiting identification (ID), removal for autopsy, respectful burial, cremation or other methods of disposal. In modern times, corpses have cu ...
. She has performed works at a women's asylum in
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. One of her most famous works was "Hamam", performed in the men's section of a
Turkish bath A hammam (), also often called a Turkish bath by Westerners, is a type of steam bath or a place of public bathing associated with the Islamic world. It is a prominent feature in the culture of the Muslim world and was inherited from the model ...
in Galatasaray, Istanbul. It was exhibited in 1997 as a part of the International Istanbul Biennial.
"What's scandalous here is not the nudity," she says, "What's scandalous was the fact that here I was, an intellectual woman, who proposes doing something scandalous. If I had really been a whore, it would have been no big deal. Just being a female avant-garde artist is scandalous."


In Press

In 2005, a book about Moral's work, titled ''Apocalypse'', was published by the Italian publisher Gangemi, curated by Simonetta Lux and Patrizia Mania.


References


External links


Official website
* http://www.sukranmoral.net/
Interview with Inside Art Webtv (in Italian)



Şükran Moral on eskizozluk.com




{{DEFAULTSORT:Moral, Sukran 1962 births Living people Turkish contemporary artists 20th-century Turkish women artists 21st-century Turkish women artists People from Terme