The story of “the girl who tore the Qur’an”, one of the first asparaguses of the Internet, went viral in the 2000s. The image, which many have traumatic memories of, was actually a wax statue. This is how we learned that we should not believe everything that is seen on the internet.
First in camera phones and email chains It was a commonly shared image. Also, when Arabic words were added to it, our fear factor increased a lot. This fabricated story was exactly as follows:
“This incident, which you can read with caution, took place in Oman. A young girl was listening to music in her room while her mother was busy reading the Qur’an aloud. Meanwhile, her mother told her to turn down the volume of the music. Thereupon, the young girl shouted at her mother and asked her to shut up. When the young girl sees that her mother does not listen to her and that she is still reading the Quran aloud, she immediately takes our holy book, which was downloaded to guide people, from her mother’s hand, and tears it up. At that moment, the young girl catches fire and starts to burn. Her mother throws a blanket over her to extinguish it. When she lifts her blanket, she encounters the exemplary view seen below. The young girl is currently in a hospital in the Netherlands. Her family wants her to be shot and killed. This event did not take place in the world press for reasons you can imagine, but it is widely talked about among people. As far as we heard the incident from some sources We tried to tell you.”
Actually, this design belongs to a wax sculpture prepared in 2003 as part of Australian artist Patricia Piccinini’s exhibition “Leather Landscape”.
He is one of the leading artists of the hyperrealism movement.
His works have disturbing features.
But he actually wants to bring love forward.
When you read Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; He is impressed by Frankenstein’s lack of love for the monster he has created.
For this reason, he started to reveal these works, thinking that even monsters should be shown love.
His mother’s diagnosis of cancer when he was 13 also influenced his designs.
Because his interest in biology increased.
The emphasis on motherhood is frequently seen in her works.
Animal-human hybrid creatures usually come to the fore.
It is not known whether Patricia Piccinini is aware of how much she scared a generation, but luckily, her other works “The family of the girl who ripped the Qur’an” It didn’t turn into a series with a sequel story, but didn’t go viral and didn’t drag us into more serious traumas.