Four Ballads for my Father – Spring
Cemile Sahin
Esther Schipper, Berlin | Paris | Seoul
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Première
- Title
- Four Ballads for my Father – Spring
- Gallery
- Esther Schipper, Berlin | Paris | Seoul
- Year
- 2022
- Duration
- 43 min 40 s
- Format & Technical
HD, Single-Channel Video, Colour, Sound
In Cemile Sahin’s new film, Four Ballads for my Father – Spring, she introduces an expansive narrative told in layered cinematic styles. The film tells the story of the Kurdish family Bingöl, whose homeland was flooded by a Turkish water dam project and displaced its members between Istanbul, Paris and on the road. The family’s father was lost in the process, and his children vow to find him. Along the way, we learn through Sahin’s playful yet incisive direction about the politics of water in the region, a natural resource rivaling oil for its scarcity and power.
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Cemile Sahin
1990, Wiesbaden
Born in Wiesbaden, Germany (1990), lives and works in Berlin.
Cemile Sahin’s artistic practice operates between film, photography, sculpture, and literature. In her nonhierarchical use of media, her work embodies today’s synchronicity of image- and text-based communications. Integrating images into her writing and text in her image-world, Sahin moves with agility between words and pictures, between still and moving image, between text as form, sign, and symbol. Deliberately elliptical and fragmentary, her work’s narrative strategies draw on an episodic format of narration established by TV series and online videos.
The artist’s projects include: Cemile Sahin, Kunsthalle Osnabrück (2022); 16e Biennale de Lyon (2022); Identität nicht nachgewiesen, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn (2022); Transforming Archives, Akademie der Künste, Berlin (2021); ars viva 2020, Kunstverein, Hamburg (2020); Where the Story Unfolds, Akademie der Künste, Berlin (2020); ars viva 2020, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig (2019); Tell me about yesterday tomorrow, NS-Dokumentationszentrum, Munich (2019).
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Esther Schipper
- Address
- Potsdamer Strasse 81E, D-10785, Berlin | Paris | Seoul
- Phone
- +49 (0)30 374433133
- office@estherschipper.com
- Website
- www.estherschipper.com
Specializing in contemporary art and representing over 48 artists and estates, Esther Schipper has locations in Berlin, Paris and Seoul. The gallery is committed to presenting groundbreaking exhibitions by leading international artists. Mainly active in the primary market, the gallery represents its artists at all major international art fairs.
Throughout its more than three decades of exhibition practice, Esther Schipper has provided a platform for artists to present projects that mark novel territories, initiate important conceptual departures, and bring forth new bodies of works. Building on an early pioneering program the gallery initially specialized in fostering institutional support and finding markets for radically experimental and time-based works. Today Esther Schipper represents international artists across several generations working in all media, its program spanning established artists to newly discovered talents.
Esther Schipper is jointly owned by its founder Esther Schipper and Partner Florian Wojnar. Besides its three locations, the gallery has representatives in Barcelona, Beijing, New York, Monaco/Nice, and Taipei.