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Pinar Yolaçan (born 1981) is a contemporary Turkish artist based in
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. One of her most well-known series, ''Perishables'', depicts portraits of elderly women in garments created by Yolaçan from raw meat and animal parts. Yolaçan studied
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at
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design Central Saint Martins is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London, a public art university in London, England. The college offers full-time courses at foundation, undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and a variety of short ...
and Media Art in
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before graduating from the
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with a BFA in 2004. While at Cooper Union, Yolaçan was runner-up in the ''
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'' "Capture The Times", photography contest for college students. Yolaçan describes her underlying theme in her work as her "interest in the female body". She has cited inspiration in forms of the Queen of England-type imperial icon and the Victorian body, to the
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religious icons of Maria and the colonial
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period, to deity figures from pre-neolithic period which was the archetype of beauty surrounding
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thousands of years ago.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Yolacan, Pinar 1981 births Living people Alumni of Central Saint Martins Alumni of Chelsea College of Arts Cooper Union alumni Turkish artists 21st-century Turkish women artists