Exhibition
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Gnration
Free access
Praça Conde de Agrolongo n° 123 4700-312 Braga
Mon to Fri 09:30-18:30
Sat 10:00-18:30
This exhibition can be visited until August 8th.
©Courtesy of the artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin/Paris/Seoul
Cemile Sahin (b. 1990, Germany) works across moving image, photography, and literature. Her practice critically engages with power structures, war, and violence. In her spatialized narratives, Sahin explores how media, politics, and warfare shape our understanding of history. Drawing on a pop aesthetic that fuses images, text, advertising, animation, and appropriated footage, she creates fragmented, fast-paced narratives — often charged with vivid color — that draw on the visual language of television, online media, and video games, while addressing urgent political issues such as the use of drones by corporations and authoritarian regimes.
“ROAD RUNNER” (2025) is a science fiction thriller that follows two sisters caught between the physical and virtual worlds in a dystopian future dominated by killer drones. The protagonist, Bêrîtan, struggles to free her sister from digital captivity. The work brings together narrative strategies from film, television, video games, and social media platforms.
Cemile Sahin
Cemile Sahin was born in Germany in 1990. She studied Fine Arts at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London and at the Universität der Künste in Berlin. Her works are part of the collections of the Museum Ludwig (Cologne), the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, the Kunsthaus Zürich, the Julia Stoschek Collection (Berlin/Düsseldorf), the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art (Turin), among others. In dialogue with her exhibition work, Cemile Sahin has published three novels: Taxi (2019), which earned her the German Alfred Döblin Literary Prize; All Dogs Die (2020) and Kommando Ajax (2024), the latter being shortlisted for the Vienna Literature Prize.