Aula Aberta com Cihan Çakmak
Self-empowerment and autobiographical art
terça-feira, 20 de Maio de 2025, 17h
Auditório Piso 0 do Edifício de Coronel Pacheco
Cihan Çakmak will focus on photography and moved image as a tool of self-reflection and self-empowerment.
In this context, connected to questions of heritage, origin, transgenerational trauma and fragments of the own biography, she negotiates the past and the future at the same time. She will show her works “not me not you“2024-2025 ongoing, “Where I left you” 2023, “When we leave“ 2018-2025 ongoing. These works contextualize photography as a tool to show the inner conflicts and states by using the subject of self-portraits and essayistic, auto-fictional story telling.
These issues always follow the question of identity: Who are we? Who do we want to be? How do we want to shape our relationships in context of reconnecting after trauma?
Cihan Çakmak was born in Lower Saxony, Germany in 1993. After studying photography at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts, with an interim study visit to Lisbon, she enrolled at the Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts (HGB) in 2017. There she studied in the class of Prof. Tina Bara and received her diploma in 2021. In 2023, she completed her Meisterschülerinnen degree, also at the HGB. In 2020, Cihan Çakmak received the Paula Modersohn-Becker Newcomer Award in Worpswede, and in 2023 the ein-blicke Award at the blicke film festival in Bochum. In addition to exhibiting, she speaks in the form of artist talks on current topics and discourses on podiums, in seminars at universities or radio broadcasts.
www.cihancakmak.com
Aula Aberta integrada no Meeting DAP #0