EVREN TEKINOKTAY

"Tekinoktay Finest Lingerie may initially appear as a completely cynical, commercial undertaking, until one considers the artist's  ongoing passion: media images of women.

An early publication by the artist: Sisters in the constant lazy travel, 1999, which combines her childhood photographs from the 70's and 80's with popular advertisements from the same era, attests to a divide between mothers who came of age before the pill and their daughters who were born after its appearance.

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In her collages, Tekinoktay manages to articulate the ambiguities around two ideals of female sexuality: one bound by motherhood, one freed from reproduction. Opening up a lingerie shop seems like a logical step to reflect on the conflicts endemic to an era cohabited by happy homemakers and gun-toting cowgirls. After all, what feminine article captures more aptly the double destiny of a woman's anatomy than a brassiere?

..Whatever Tekinoktay´s works bare, they bare the traces of a secret history of femininity”'

Jennifer Allen, Artforum January 2004

"Tekinoktay Finest Lingerie may initially appear as a completely cynical, commercial undertaking, until one considers the artist's  ongoing passion: media images of women.

An early publication by the artist: Sisters in the constant lazy travel, 1999, which combines her childhood photographs from the 70's and 80's with popular advertisements from the same era, attests to a divide between mothers who came of age before the pill and their daughters who were born after its appearance.

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In her collages, Tekinoktay manages to articulate the ambiguities around two ideals of female sexuality: one bound by motherhood, one freed from reproduction. Opening up a lingerie shop seems like a logical step to reflect on the conflicts endemic to an era cohabited by happy homemakers and gun-toting cowgirls. After all, what feminine article captures more aptly the double destiny of a woman's anatomy than a brassiere?

..Whatever Tekinoktay´s works bare, they bare the traces of a secret history of femininity”'

Jennifer Allen, Artforum January 2004

"Tekinoktay Finest Lingerie may initially appear as a completely cynical, commercial undertaking, until one considers the artist's  ongoing passion: media images of women.

An early publication by the artist: Sisters in the constant lazy travel, 1999, which combines her childhood photographs from the 70's and 80's with popular advertisements from the same era, attests to a divide between mothers who came of age before the pill and their daughters who were born after its appearance.

​

In her collages, Tekinoktay manages to articulate the ambiguities around two ideals of female sexuality: one bound by motherhood, one freed from reproduction. Opening up a lingerie shop seems like a logical step to reflect on the conflicts endemic to an era cohabited by happy homemakers and gun-toting cowgirls. After all, what feminine article captures more aptly the double destiny of a woman's anatomy than a brassiere?

..Whatever Tekinoktay´s works bare, they bare the traces of a secret history of femininity”'

Jennifer Allen, Artforum January 2004

"Tekinoktay Finest Lingerie may initially appear as a completely cynical, commercial undertaking, until one considers the artist's  ongoing passion: media images of women.

An early publication by the artist: Sisters in the constant lazy travel, 1999, which combines her childhood photographs from the 70's and 80's with popular advertisements from the same era, attests to a divide between mothers who came of age before the pill and their daughters who were born after its appearance.

​

In her collages, Tekinoktay manages to articulate the ambiguities around two ideals of female sexuality: one bound by motherhood, one freed from reproduction. Opening up a lingerie shop seems like a logical step to reflect on the conflicts endemic to an era cohabited by happy homemakers and gun-toting cowgirls. After all, what feminine article captures more aptly the double destiny of a woman's anatomy than a brassiere?

..Whatever Tekinoktay´s works bare, they bare the traces of a secret history of femininity”'

Jennifer Allen, Artforum January 2004

"Tekinoktay Finest Lingerie may initially appear as a completely cynical, commercial undertaking, until one considers the artist's  ongoing passion: media images of women.

An early publication by the artist: Sisters in the constant lazy travel, 1999, which combines her childhood photographs from the 70's and 80's with popular advertisements from the same era, attests to a divide between mothers who came of age before the pill and their daughters who were born after its appearance.

​

In her collages, Tekinoktay manages to articulate the ambiguities around two ideals of female sexuality: one bound by motherhood, one freed from reproduction. Opening up a lingerie shop seems like a logical step to reflect on the conflicts endemic to an era cohabited by happy homemakers and gun-toting cowgirls. After all, what feminine article captures more aptly the double destiny of a woman's anatomy than a brassiere?

..Whatever Tekinoktay´s works bare, they bare the traces of a secret history of femininity”'

Jennifer Allen, Artforum January 2004