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Violence and Gender in the “New” EuropeTroubling Headscarves: Covering, Artistic Reconfigurations of Public Space, and the Muslim Woman’s Body

Violence and Gender in the “New” Europe: Troubling Headscarves: Covering, Artistic... [In the ten photographs that make up Iranian artist Shadi Ghadirian’s 2006 series Ctrl+Alt+Del, a black-clad woman’s body disappears into the black background against which she is photographed, preventing any sense of depth or perspective within the image. Only her face, hands, and feet—those parts of the body traditionally considered “naturally” visible and therefore not subject to laws of covering—are visible, as pale white contrasts to the black of the photograph. The black on black, however, creates an illusion for the viewer that the woman may be either “covering” or wearing tight black clothing such as might befit a dancer. In each photograph, familiar computer icons have been digitally added; sometimes they follow the lines of the woman’s body, sometimes she pushes them away.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Violence and Gender in the “New” EuropeTroubling Headscarves: Covering, Artistic Reconfigurations of Public Space, and the Muslim Woman’s Body

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2013
ISBN
978-1-349-43525-8
Pages
113 –135
DOI
10.1057/9781137007094_4
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Abstract

[In the ten photographs that make up Iranian artist Shadi Ghadirian’s 2006 series Ctrl+Alt+Del, a black-clad woman’s body disappears into the black background against which she is photographed, preventing any sense of depth or perspective within the image. Only her face, hands, and feet—those parts of the body traditionally considered “naturally” visible and therefore not subject to laws of covering—are visible, as pale white contrasts to the black of the photograph. The black on black, however, creates an illusion for the viewer that the woman may be either “covering” or wearing tight black clothing such as might befit a dancer. In each photograph, familiar computer icons have been digitally added; sometimes they follow the lines of the woman’s body, sometimes she pushes them away.]

Published: Nov 12, 2015

Keywords: Public Space; Public Sphere; Muslim Woman; Turkish Woman; Intimate Violence

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