Rahime

In Rahime, Çakar looks at a mythicized region called Shatt al- Arab, where the Tigris and the Euphrates meet. The love story between the two rivers has been popularized and mythicized. The region has highly political and strategic importance as well as economic strength, supporting its own hinterland; it is also a contested region for for these very reasons. The artist looks at the map of the region and compares it to female body. The borders of Mesopotamia become the contours of female body and the artist creates the work, a crossover between painting and map, without trying to establish a cause- effect relationship. The name of the work derives from the love between the Euphrates and the Tigris, the female representation, and the assumption that “Rahman” represents the male principle and “Rahim” the female principle, leading to”Rahime”

Azra Tüzünoğlu Miniature 2.0 Pera Museum