The origin of the light graphic "YOU ENTER MY SAFE SPACE" by Ahoo Maher lies in a project by Kurdish filmmaker Helin Celik. For her soon-to-be-released documentary film "Anqa", she interviewed women in Amman / Jordan who had experienced domestic violence. These women had to flee from their families to the outskirts of the city and hide there anonymously. In the interviews, the women described their ideal vision of safe places – kitchen, bedroom, living room. What should the sofa look like, the bed? Where could a lamp stand, what do you see when you look out the window? Every detail was described precisely by the women. Together with the Jordanian artist Dalal Mitwally, Ahoo Maher first translated the interviews into drawings, then into large-scale wall murals on house façades in Amman. The light graphic at the Platz der Kulturen is based on the drawing of a bedroom – the most precarious space of domestic violence and at the same time the most intimate retreat of a "safe space".
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