Cemile Sahin 22, 2024

Cemile Sahin's series of photographic panels—each unique and numbered sequentially—draws on imagery related to the artist's ongoing projects.

The motif is based on images created with prompts on an Artificial Intelligence image generator, subsequently altered and adjusted by Sahin. Akin to a storyboard filmmakers prepare before a shoot, or even to a film still, the image has a specific perspective, style and aesthetic that recall camera and position angle.

Often taken from concurrent research material, or, in recent works, images from her film works, the panels can be compared to working notes, reminders of ideas from the past that might be taken up again in future projects. Modified and removed from their context, each image is paired with a very short text. Characteristic of Sahin's practice, the photographic panels interweave pictures and words in a graphically striking yet quietly evocative way.