Sukran Moral lives and works in Istanbul and Rome. As one of the most interesting contemporary artists, she has been in international stage during the last decade. The Artist, in 1989, has moved to Italy and in 1995 she has graduated from the painting department of Academy of Fine Arts of Rome (Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma). Her works have been  focusing on various conditions of restrain and pressure on women such as religion and culture, and executed many documentary video-performances concerned about mentally disordered people, immigrants, transsexuals, prostitudes that are excluded and alienated by society. In Istanbul, she has realized and exhibited a series of video- performances in a Brothel that is not allowed to be visited by women, at Karakoy, Istanbul. 

Selected Works of Artist
The work that launched Moral onto the international art stage was a 1997 film entitled "Bordello." In it, Moral stands in a brothel dressed as a prostitute. "When I was a girl," Moral recounts, "they always threatened me that if I didn't study and work hard, I would end up in a place like this. I was terrified of brothels. I wanted to come see this place that was the cause of so much fear." Still, Moral says, people didn't realize what she was doing. "They said that I went to where I really worked to make my piece, that I really was a whore," she says. "This was a terrible blow -- to me, to my reputation and to my family."
That same year, Moral sparked controversy by sneaking into a male bathhouse in Istabul. The work "Hamam" had to do with a woman invading a space usually reserved for men. "What's scandalous here is not the nudity," she says. "What's scandalous was the fact that here I was, an intellectual woman, who proposes doing something scandalous. If I had really been a whore, it would have been no big deal. Just being a female avant-garde artist is scandalous."
Her piece "Family Night" shows an elegantly set table with wine glasses, fine china, silver and flowers. Sitting at the end of the table is a skeleton wearing a long, black wig, its mouth open in what Moral describes as a "Munch-like scream." Young girls dressed in white dance innocently around the table. Among the fine tableware, however, lies a hammer, several bullets, a rubber snake, a butcher's knife and a pistol. "I collected articles from Turkish newspapers of the horrible, unimaginable ways in which women had been murdered," Moral says. As part of the performance, a number of young girls dressed in white bridal dresses with veiled tiaras dance innocently and smilingly around the table. "You have these angelic girls dancing around the table," Moral explains. "They don't know this is what they'll end up like."
In her 2009 performance piece "Love and Violence," Moral dresses all in black with a black hijab. Seated at a desk is a life-size doll wearing a flora-patterned dressed, meant to be the character's daughter. Moral picks the doll up and lifts her skirt before slitting off her clitoris with a razor blade. She then dresses the girl in black, like herself, and puts a white wedding veil on her head. Then she carries the girl to a wall on which there is a life-size photograph of the 40-year-old Afghan man made famous in a 2007 picture of him sitting next to his frightened-looking 11-year-old bride. After the wedding, the woman picks up a black rubber jump rope, with which she symbolically whips the girl to death before turning the whip on herself. "We women are guilty, too," Moral says.
Moral's 2004 work "Apocalypse" has a photograph of a woman pregnant with twins in a crucified position in front of 28 female bodies -- including those of four children and four pregnant women -- wrapped in white sheets. "This is God as woman," Moral says. "And this is God saying: 'I give you life, and you just take it away.'"
In her 1996 work "Speculum," Moral has half of a naked woman lying on a gynaecological examination table. A monitor between the sculpture's legs plays scenes from other performance pieces, including ones in a Turkish bathhouse, a brothel, a women's mental hospital and a place where the dead are washed.