Between nightmares and daydreams, between image and language: Katharina Klapdor Ben Salem talks to artist Cihan Çakmak about her first publication ez fraktal. Her photographic work deals with questions of identity, longing and trauma. Between tradition and emancipation, adaptation and self-realisation, she examines the ambivalences that shape identities across generations. What divides us, what unites us? A dialogue about visibility, autobiographical narratives and the fragility of origins.

Followed by a book signing at the SHIFT BOOKS table.

Cihan Çakmak is a photographer and visual artist specialising in people and their inner states.

Katharina Klapdor Ben Salem is a cultural anthropologist (M.A.) and has been working across disciplines, conceptually and strategically for projects in art and culture since 2013. She has been in charge of the German Youth Photo Award competition „Deutscher Jugendfotopreis“ since 2023.

To the books: Cihan Çakmak, ez fraktal