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Female Don Quixote

Mahmut Aydın2017

Elgiz Museum

Elgiz Museum
Istanbul, Türkiye

"Don Quixote" exists through his actions due to his cynicism and his dialectic conception between delusion and reality. The story of Don Quixote is not merely a longing for the past in the face of the negativity of changing society, it also represents an existence purely in the world imagination he formulated to realize. In this regard, it is possible to place Don Quixote somewhere in the women's struggle and to treat each and every one of these striving women as a Female Don Quixote. Just like Don Quixote, in social history women have either been forced to give up their struggles or ignored in through an argument of 'madness'. Contrary to Don Quixote, however, the outcome of this struggle was not failure or resignation, but practical action that realized the transformation of women in society.

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  • Title: Female Don Quixote
  • Creator: Mahmut Aydın
  • Date Created: 2017
  • Physical Location: Istanbul, Turkey
  • Physical Dimensions: 260x 75x 240 cm
  • Type: sculpture
  • Rights: http://ist.tc/elgiz/terms.htm
  • Medium: metal welding
Elgiz Museum

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