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109:. The most important thing for her in art is being interactive. She works on poetry (language) and art relationships, gender and feminism issues, architectural elements and political subjects. Since 1995 Agaoglu has produced nine poetry books that have made her famous as a female poet in the literature scene of Turkey.
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Her poems have been published in literary journals since the age of 18. She has seven poetry books that have been published in Turkey and two poetry books published in
Azerbaijan. Ağaoğlu's poems have been translated into many languages, such as Azeri, Russian, English, Italian, and Spanish. She is a
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Since 1995, Yeşim Agaoğlu has produced nine poetry books. The emphasis in her poems is on exploration of the most obscure dreams, desires, and intentions of the soul and the unpredictable relations between individuals; however, in between the layers of poetic descriptions she allows the reader to
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Yeşim Ağaoğlu has been continuing contemporary art activities combining different disciplines since 1996. She has had four solo exhibitions in
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Norway. Ağaoğlu has participated in a number of exhibitions in countries like Germany, France, Poland, the
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pass through a socio-political terrain that reflects her critical approach to the order of things. She discloses this complexity in a surrealist mode intertwined with an exhilarating openness of subject and form. Her imaginative qualities also owe much to her education in archeology and cinema.
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459:"hırsızlama aşklar, gri yalnızlıklar" ("love stolen, loneliness grey" (November 1996))
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507:"sana şiir yazmasam olur mu" ("you dont mind if i dont write poems to you"(2011)
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259:— "Sheshow", ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia, Bulgaria.
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501:"güllerin ağırlığı" ("heaviness of the roses" (2007))
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271:— "Field of Vision", Gallery Lab, New York, USA.
209:Selected exhibitions and professional experience
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683:"Yeşim Ağaoğlu's profile on PEN International"
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1079:"Струшки вечери на поезијата"
942:"Yeşim Ağaoğlu : C.A.M"
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