Project ‘Love is hers’ is an attempt to embrace lovelorn women’s melancholic state of mind with three video art pieces. It looks for love’s contribution to a woman’s identity in lover’s absence. As these women are mourning for their loss, they mourn inwards. This mourning of emotions is what Freud calls melancholia, a proof to human innerself, and what gives us insight about human structure.
With reference to feminist view that love leaves women voiceless, my pieces try to acknowledge the inner voices of mourning women battered in love.
This piece ‘Forget-me-not’’ is the voice of a rejected woman, who in restrospect inquires if love’s reality is in one’s own mind. The woman in ’Me, Too” represents the “hopeful self’’ of the battered woman, forgetful of past failure in her relationship. She is inviting and she wishes lover’s return. The woman in “Wounded heart” associates loss of lover with growing up trauma. This piece sends references to mother-daughter relationship as milestone in a woman’s identity. It also refers to Freud’s calling life a tale of disappointments.
As the silent inner thoughts flow as subtitles, they compose a poetic narrative and backbone to the pieces. Women also tell their stories orally, along with audio symbols such as lullabies. Visually, ‘’Love is hers’’ is concerned with concepts such as being in the moment, deliberating one’s memories, the perception of time in one’s mind. Settings such as the bathroom, or the depiction of a woman belly dancing in the bedroom are part of the narrative as melancholic’s being closed to external world. These pieces also react to the notion that women’s powerful feelings are socially feared.
Freud says if one has lost a love object, the most obvious reaction is to identify oneself with it, making him a part of her own I. My pieces are odes of these mourning periods. Love is hers project is an attempt to capture a woman's identification with lost lover, the moments of one’s uniting with one's own I , and perhaps uniting with the lost half of the twin soul (of Aristophanes).
With reference to feminist view that love leaves women voiceless, my pieces try to acknowledge the inner voices of mourning women battered in love.
This piece ‘Forget-me-not’’ is the voice of a rejected woman, who in restrospect inquires if love’s reality is in one’s own mind. The woman in ’Me, Too” represents the “hopeful self’’ of the battered woman, forgetful of past failure in her relationship. She is inviting and she wishes lover’s return. The woman in “Wounded heart” associates loss of lover with growing up trauma. This piece sends references to mother-daughter relationship as milestone in a woman’s identity. It also refers to Freud’s calling life a tale of disappointments.
As the silent inner thoughts flow as subtitles, they compose a poetic narrative and backbone to the pieces. Women also tell their stories orally, along with audio symbols such as lullabies. Visually, ‘’Love is hers’’ is concerned with concepts such as being in the moment, deliberating one’s memories, the perception of time in one’s mind. Settings such as the bathroom, or the depiction of a woman belly dancing in the bedroom are part of the narrative as melancholic’s being closed to external world. These pieces also react to the notion that women’s powerful feelings are socially feared.
Freud says if one has lost a love object, the most obvious reaction is to identify oneself with it, making him a part of her own I. My pieces are odes of these mourning periods. Love is hers project is an attempt to capture a woman's identification with lost lover, the moments of one’s uniting with one's own I , and perhaps uniting with the lost half of the twin soul (of Aristophanes).
