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Subverting the Script: Queer Domesticity in Nilbar Güreş's Works

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In this chapter, Ula focuses on the ways in which Turkish visual artist Nilbar Güreş uses domestic settings and referents in her work to create a paradigm of queer domesticity that subvert the scripts (of homemaking, domestic tasks, and marriage, among others) associated with these settings. Further, she argues that through this queer art practice that draws on the ordinary scripts of daily life, she ultimately pushes viewersto consider and confront what these scripts might look like when inflected with queer energies.

Keywords: installation ; mixed media art ; Nilbar Güreş ; painting ; photography ; queer ; queer art ; queer domesticity ; queer visual art ; Turkey ; Turkish contemporary art ; visual art

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Subverting the Script: Queer Domesticity in Nilbar Güreş's Works
Intellect , 159 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1386/9781835950265_12
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