Sukran Moral

Place: Terme

Born: 1962

Biography:

Şükran Moral is a Turkish artist, best known for her performances, videos and installations. She was born in 1962 in Terme, Samsun, Turkey. Moral currently lives and works in Istanbul and Rome. During the 80's and 90's, she wrote poetry and worked as a journalist and art critic in Turkey. Her area of interest have mostly been the negative effects of religion on women, the mentally ill and disordered and the alienation and exclusion of immigrants, Transsexuals, and Prostitutes. She has performed works at a women's asylum in Istanbul and her most famous work is 'Hamam' performed in the men's section of a Turkish bath in Galatasaray, Istanbul. In 2005, a book about Moral's work, titled Apocalypse, was published by the Italian publisher Gangemi, curated by Simonetta Lux and Patrizia Mania.