Hermafrodit/ Hermaphrodite

Written By Athena Longoria
Aziz Murat Aslan Mixed media on canvas, 60 x 49 cm, 1,000 USD

Aziz Murat Aslan
Mixed media on canvas, 60 x 49 cm, 1,000 USD

 

Foreign visitors to Turkey in the 18th and 19th centuries brought back stories of Karagöz plays with sexual themes that they’d seen in private homes. A rare hermaphrodite Karagöz figure in the Topkapi Palace Museum Collection inspired this painting.

Athena Longoria
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