Turkish artist Pinar Yolacan — aka ‘the tripe artist’.
Turkish artist Pinar Yolacan — aka ‘the tripe artist’ — presented the following portraits as part of her first solo exhibition in New York City (Rivington Arms, New York December 10 - January 21, 2005).
The exhibition consisted of 19 subjects who were recruited via a casting call on craiglist. All of the subjects were white and between the ages of 50 and 70. Yolacan took a polaroid of each women and sent them off with a loose date at which they would reconvene. In the interim the artist studied the subjects, the kinds of personality traits their looks conveyed, and devised a garment that each would wear for the second shoot.
Yolacan sees a kind of ‘otherness’ (her term) in these women of a certain age and class that she magnifies in their garments made out of tripe, cow stomach, chicken skin and lamb testicles. The outfits convey the Victorian elegance that Yolacan perceived in such women during her first experiences of Western European life in the UK.
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