The ObjectsNarratedProject aims to understand how women create a meaningful totality by keeping and cherishing certain objects in their homes. In order to make this phenomenon public, the project team interviewed with 6 women until now and made video records of them in their domestic environments. The narrativisation of objects which is suggested within the framework of this project is based on the idea that the self and the object are the same unified narrative and “the way people talk about their objects (i)s a way of talking about their lives, selves and experiences.” (1) Spoken accounts of connected events offer us a possibility to understand how the objects are perceived by their users or keepers, and what they might mean to them. “Like narratives, objects have a power in social settings: they offer interpretation of the story of their existence: they give back echoes of their past.” Here, within the framework of ObjectNarratedProject, an approach considering objects as forms of text is pursued which "allows the 'reader' to interpret within their own frames of reference. (2)

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THE CORNER


Müge and her museum-like ‘corner’ in her living room is another example that strikingly illustrates how women keep and cherish objects in their homes. Even though there are so many objects that might be narrated, only three of them are selected within the limits of the video. One is a Singer sewing machine which used to belong to Müge’s mother in-law, the other is a hand-made shawl given by her grandmother and a worn magazine in which one of her father’s short stories was published.
She says that “when these things are around me, I feel myself as if I am still together with them.” The previous owners of these objects all passed away and it seems that these objects, in a way, substitute for those who are not present anymore. It is significant to note that while speaking she has the habit to touch her objects as if she connecting to those beloved ones through their objects. She says “there are traces; traces of people, traces of their hearts… All these objects are filled with memories. Whenever I look at them, I try to figure out what their feelings are. I wonder if my grandmother is sad or happy, in pain or in anger while making this shawl.”
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