Fragment of woman body and ceramic practices

Ceramic material, which has an important place in contemporary art, can offer endless varieties in creating a new language about art. In this study, with ceramic applications, the fragment of woman and by this way, through female body, a commentation on the body parts of women and criticism against commodification have been made. Ceramic techniques, personal original techniques and the applications made by using mixed materials have been used to clarify the unchanging fortune of the woman and the judgments on her through her body from the days of prehistoric times. In the first part of the study; the condition has been handled in general with the selected examples according to the stages in which women have passed through the ages. In the second part, samples of addressing women in different periods; in the third part, the theoretical explanations of the female body among the items of the consumption culture and the imageries based on the meaning surrounding it have been made and samples have been given. In the last part, insofar as contemporary art permits, ceramics and mixed materials have been used in twelve studies to give as examples for subjective critique on how women are interpreted in today's consumption culture especially through her body. Key words Art, Ceramics, Female, Fragment