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Ethereal Shoes - An Installation by Belgin Yucelen

Ethereal Shoes – An Installation of Sculptural Shoes

Lakeside Legacy Foundation, Dole Mansion, IL, March, 2017       “Ethereal Shoes” is an installation of sculptural shoes climbing towards a window. This exhibit is an attempt to rewrite a short section of the history of Turkish shoes. I used patterns similar to shoes worn during the 19th and 20th Century Ottoman Empire and added imaginary […]

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Floating Children Installation by Belgin Yucelen at the Dole Mansion

Floating Children  – An Installation in Collaboration with Photojournalist Brian Rutter

Lakeside Legacy Foundation, Dole Mansion, IL, March, 2017       “Floating Children” is intended to display the fragility of children in times of war. Black and white photographs of Syrian children printed on sheer fabric are hung from the ceiling in a way to seem like they are floating in the wind. I was

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My Solo Exhibition “Clothes from the Past” at artspace

My solo exhibition, “Clothes from the Past” at the Helena Davis Gallery, Artspace in Richmond was a great opportunity for me to reach out to the East Coast with my historical dresses. I also gave a talk at the opening of my solo exhibition “Clothes from the Past” at the Helena Davis Gallery in artspace in Richmond, VA. This was a great opportunity for

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Overwritten Scripts – Prints on Women’s Rights

“Overwritten Scripts” is a set of prints I created on women’s rights with the intent to emphasize the inequality that exists based on socio-cultural norms rather than Islamic principles, which regard men and women equal in humanity. Each print speaks of a specific right a woman deserves and they are a result of an extensive study of

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