„I am French, but my deep connection to Istanbul runs far beyond tourism. I’ve visited the city nearly 30 times and have learned Turkish along the way. Locals often joke that I must have lived a past life as a Turk, and in many ways, I feel that too 😉
Berlin is a city that offers a unique cultural echo of Istanbul. Berlin is considered the largest Turkish city outside of Turkey. Isn’t Berlin, especially the Kreuzberg district, often nicknamed „Little Istanbul“? As I approached this residency, my first creative impulse was then to bring these two cities into dialogue and creative resonance.“
born in Paris, living in Marseille, and Istanbul-addicted
Through her practice of collage, Sandrine Kiefer explores is looking for unexpected encounters between image and text. Her artistic approach is to enrich and animate each collage with words: it can be a phrase, or even a longer paragraph, unearthed mostly from a novel. It’s as if the image and the text were always destined for one another, finally brought together as an inevitable pairing, one no longer existing without the other.
In a creative frenzy, she is able to produce over 150 collages in just two months, diving headfirst into a whirlwind of themes: love, life, death, sustainability, identity, sexuality, homosexuality, identity, womanhood, freedom…
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