Gülsün Karamustafa

Place: Ankara

Born: 1946

Biography:

Gülsün Karamustafa is a visual artist and filmmaker recognized as 'one of Turkey’s most outspoken and celebrated artists.' Using personal narratives, she explores socio-political issues in modern Turkey and addresses themes including sexuality-gender, exile-ethnicity, and displacement-migration. Her work reflects on the traumatic effects of nation building, as it responds to the processes of modernization, political turbulence, and civil rights in a period that includes the military coups of 1960, 1971, and 1980.