Elif Saydam / NO R.E.M.
On view September 15-September 24, 2017
Ashley
Oranienstrasse 37, 10999 Berlin
photographer credit: graysc.de
Elif
Saydam (b. 1985, Calgary, Canada) is a Turkish-Canadian artist, writer and
performer. Recent exhibitions include a solo presentation of paintings at
Kunstverein Nürnberg in 2016 and performances in La Biennale de Montreal and
Made in Germany Drei, Hannover, 2017. Saydam graduated from the Staedelschule
in Frankfurt am Main, Meisterschulerin 2016. With an emphasis on language and
symbology, she uses fiction, theatre and painting to perform conflicting
narratives and traverse the tension found in irreconcilable difference. Current
interests include the relationship of humour to fear. Saydam lives somewhere
between Berlin and Izmir.