Printmaking
'Hayat kısa, balıklar görüyor'
by
Safiye Otman
Status
Available
Price
₺30.000,00
Life is short.
And we have wasted enough time to spend it in silence.
But the fish see—
the unspoken, the repressed, all the women's stories that sink to the bottom.
They watch us not with their eyes, but with their memories.
They know the anger hidden under the waves,
the voices that cannot rise to the surface.
This painting is an answer to the mistake of those who think they are invisible.
Women do not remain silent, they only speak in another language:
With color, with body, with resistance.
Life is short,
but we are no longer invisible.
And everyone, including the fish, knows this.
Artwork Details
- Dimensions
- 80 cm x 80 cm x 80 cm
- Height
- 80 cm
- Width
- 80 cm
- Depth
- 80 cm
- Category
- Printmaking
- Mediums
- Painting
About Safiye Otman
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For me, art is not merely expression; it is a form of liberation, resistance, and making the invisible visible. Each layer
echoes the voices of women silenced throughout history.
My understanding of art is to fly and never land on earth. Because freedom lies beyond borders, in that boundless
space freed from gravity.
I depict the multilayered state of being a woman: a veil covering a wound, a hidden cry, or light overflowing
from memory… Each of my works transcends an individual narrative and rewrites the collective female memory.
Art cannot be liberated without women being liberated. My practice is based on giving voice to the silent, eyes
to the invisible, and a voice to the silenced. Because both art and life multiply with women. And I speak from
within that multiplication.
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