A Truck Goes Through The Tulip Field: Art As A Medium For Women's Freedom And Resilience

Abstract

A Truck Goes Through the Tulip Field: Exploring Women’s Freedom and Liberation through Immersive Painting-Installation explores the intersection of women’s freedom, resilience, and resistance through an immersive, mixed-media installation. Drawing from personal experiences of violence and displacement, the work employs abstract and figurative representation to challenge societal norms and amplify the voices of marginalized women. The installation features a dynamic painting arrangement that engages physically and symbolically with the gallery space. Three paintings will hang loosely on the walls, creating a sense of fluidity and movement, while three others will drape like a curtain from the corners of the room, evoking a tension between confinement and release. In the centre of the gallery, four paintings will be suspended from the ceiling and anchored to the floor in a rhombus shape, a representation of the delicate balance between oppression and freedom. With its equal sides and tilted form, the rhombus suggests both tension and stability, reflecting the precarious conditions many women face in their pursuit of autonomy. Each painting employs a multi-point perspective, offering a visual and symbolic lens into the layered, fragmented experiences of diasporic women. This approach resists singular narratives, emphasizing complexity and inviting multiple interpretations.