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Participating artists:
with Cihan Ҫakmak, artist and participant of the European network exhibition RETHINKING IDENTITY of EMOP in the European partner cities Luxembourg and Lisbon and Melinda Matern, art sociologist

Venue:
EMOP Special c/o Amtsalon
Kantstraße 79
10627 Berlin
emop-berlin.eu/


Cihan Çakmak’s narrative is sensitive and nuanced, but also ambivalent and unforgiving. She offers insights into her biography and postulates an archaeology of the self, which she allows to transform into a site of collective history and intergenerational identity. But instead of being completely subsumed by her Kurdish or other forms of identity, she uses her investigation to reveal and process categories of attribution artistically in order to open them up to discussion. In her ‘desire not to be identified in that way’, (Bini Adamczak) Cihan Çakmak also denies the viewer the opportunity to walk around in her art as though in a familiar place, which is ultimately what makes her artistic work so fascinating.

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