The exhibition, curated by Chiara Nuzzi and arrange within the undertaking room, addresses pressing political themes of our current. The present is open to the general public freed from cost from Wednesday, March 26 to Friday, July 11, 2025.
Cemile Sahin explores up to date visible languages by means of cinema, pictures, sculpture, and literature. ROAD RUNNER is the title of her newest movie, offered in January on the Esther Schipper gallery in Berlin and produced by CIRCA. A quick-paced sci-fi thriller, it tells the story of two sisters trapped between bodily and digital realities. The movie seamlessly integrates textual parts inside photos and spans varied genres, together with motion movies, video video games, ads, and animation.
Sahin’s work blends textual content and picture, creating fragmented narratives impressed by the episodic codecs of TV sequence and on-line movies. The usage of vivid colours and the fast-paced rhythm of her works consult with popular culture and video video games, whereas the content material addresses present political themes, comparable to using drones by firms and authoritarian regimes.
The exhibition opens with two aluminum-mounted prints, put in within the hall resulting in the undertaking room, a darkish, immersive house the place the movie ROAD RUNNER is projected. Cemile Sahin integrates drones and synthetic intelligence into her artistic course of, remodeling them into generative instruments. As for the 2 panels, she used a machine studying software program to generate photos, coaching it on her personal work. She then generated photos by means of verbal prompts and refined them to attain the specified end result. The panels mix the generated photos with quick texts: ambiguous phrases open to a number of interpretations that evoke the language of memes, whereas the photographs, resembling frames or cinematic storyboards, echo the aesthetics of the movie.
Within the exhibition house, ROAD RUNNER (15:15) mixes totally different genres and languages, combining drone footage, fictional commercials, animations, and video video games. The story takes place in a dystopian future dominated by killer drones, the place the protagonist, Bêrîtan, struggles to free her sister from a digital captivity. The work’s aesthetics are impressed by video video games like GTA (Grand Theft Auto) and Counter Strike, adopting a layered narrative that attracts from cinema, TV, social media, and video video games.
Because the curator Chiara Nuzzi explains: “Sahin tackles themes associated to household and loss whereas additionally delving into types of political oppression and alienation that have an effect on trendy man within the digital age. The movie analyzes the position of drones in surveillance and battle, exploring the connection between video video games, navy coaching, and authoritarian regimes, highlighting the connection between leisure, industrial and authoritarian energy, and particular person freedom in an period of hyper-digital connectivity.”
Cemile Sahin’s new filmROAD RUNNERis offered in collaboration with CIRCA and funded by #CIRCAECONOMY, a round mannequin supporting the free public programme and the annual CIRCA PRIZE, of which Cemile Sahin was a recipient in 2023. Since launching in October 2020, CIRCA has re-distributed over £1,000,000 of #CIRCAECONOMY funds in public artwork commissions, money grants, scholarships, and charitable donations, supporting the artistic ecosystem and empowering artists globally.
The exhibition is made potential with the help of Esther Schipper Gallery Berlin / Paris / Seoul.
at ICA, Milano
till July 11, 2025
