Sound is the Silence of the Image
Exhibition Details:
● Sound is the Silence of the Image ●
The exhibition presents twelve artistic positions from Turkey that deal with photography and sound on a visual-poetic level. The camera as an instrument.
Artists: Ece Ak, Erhan Can Akbulut, Sinem Dișli, Ege Kanar, Zeynep Kayan, Fatih Aydoğdu, Özge Cöne, Ata Kam, Irem Sözen, Selim Süme, Sevim Sancaktar, Yeşim Ustaoğlu
Curator: Fatih Aydoğdu @fazzmoon
Fabrikraum Wien @fabrikraum
Johnstrasse 25-27 R02, 1150 Wien Austria
Opening Hours: DO-SA/THU-SA: 15:00- 18:00
For the other days, by appointment: hello@fabrikraum.org
www.fotowien.at
Curator:
Fatih Aydogdu was born in Turkey, lives and works in Vienna and Istanbul. He studied at Academy of Fine Arts in Istanbul and graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Aydogdu is visual artist, designer, sound artist and curator, focused on concepts of media aesthetics, migration & politics of Identity and linguistical issues. He took part at numereous exhibitions thr oughout Europe, Asia and USA. He is the member of Curatorial Board of "Amber Platform" Istanbul.
Featuring:
Ata Kam Born in Ankara in 1983. Lives and works in Istanbul. He graduated from the Department of Communication Design of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul, in 2001. He continued his education at the International Center of Photography and Parsons School of Design in New York until 2011. He stands out as someone who remains rooted in analogue photography and experimental print/book making. He plays out these roots by creating pieces that combine the intentionality of the artistic choice and photographic craftsmanship. He continues to travel a lot, capturing the stories that touch him.
TR, 1981 Ege Kanar received his undergraduate degree from Sabancı University, Visual Arts and Communication Design Program (Istanbul, 2004). He was awarded his graduate degree in Photography at F.A.M.U. Academy of Performing Arts (Prague, 2008). In his practice, Kanar tackles photographic images from an ontological standpoint and scrutinizes the intermediary role of photographs within various scientific and cultural contexts. His recent projects that incorporate sound, video, and installations, deal with notions of rhythm, scale, and materiality. Kanar’s past solo shows include “Apparatus” (Versus Art Project, Istanbul, 2019) and “Hammer for Scale” (poşe, Istanbul, 2018). Some of the recent group shows he has participated in, are “Sound is the Silence of the Image” (Fabrikraum, Vienna, 2022), “Workaround” (F.A.K., Münster, 2021), “Past Present Istanbul” (Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Istanbul, 2021), and “Tempo Incognito” (Depo, Istanbul, 2021). He was an artist in residence at SAHA Studio (Istanbul, January-September 2021), and Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart, April-October 2023) Alongside his artistic practice, Kanar has taught part-time at Bahçeşehir University Photography and Video Department (2016-2020, Istanbul). He resides in Istanbul, Turkey.
Fatih Aydogdu was born in Turkey, lives and works in Vienna and Istanbul. He studied at Academy of Fine Arts in Istanbul and graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Aydogdu is visual artist, designer, sound artist and curator, focused on concepts of media aesthetics, migration & politics of Identity and linguistical issues. He took part at numereous exhibitions thr oughout Europe, Asia and USA. He is the member of Curatorial Board of "Amber Platform" Istanbul.
Born in Istanbul in 1984. She works with photographs, appreciating their intricate connection to senses, memory and perception. She approaches photography as a language close to the primitive ways of communication prior to words. After-looking and assembling images is a significant part of her process. She is engaged in craft bookbinding and printmaking and her publications include a self-published book ‘recall’ (2012) and collective publications ‘Blacklie’(2014) and ‘Aralik’ (2016).
Her work has been exhibited during Mois de la Photo at Galerie François Paviot, Paris (2014); Elipsis Gallery, Istanbul (2014); Athens Photo Festival (2015 and 2016), Operation Room, Istanbul (2015); Mixer, Istanbul (2015, 2016, 2017); Cork Photo Festival (2015); Versus Art Project (2016); Galeri Nev (2018) and Institutes des Cultres d’Islam, Paris (2019).
She studied engineering and architecture at Boğaziçi University, Politecnico di Milano and Istanbul Technical University. Holding a PhD in architecture, she also works as a lecturer.
Ozge Cone is a London- Berlin-based Photographer, Digital Artist and Art Director, specialising in concept-driven visual storytelling for musicians.
With a decade of experience crafting album covers, editorial portraits, and digital artworks, her work merges bold aesthetics with emotional depth. She has engaged in collaborations with artists on a global scale, working with record labels such as Ninja Tune, Brainfeeder, Erased Tapes, and Believe. Over the years since she created her material, Ozge's work has been featured in publications including Rolling Stone, Vice, Dazed Digital, Billboard, and The Guardian.
In my practice, I focus on the image as a question__My approach to the photograph moved from subjective documentary storytelling to an examination of the representativeness of the image, only to circle back to where it began______In my recent work, I focus on the ordinary and the everyday__Through my photographs, I explore the tension created by our fundamental drives, examining themes such as friendship, fragility, life, love, home, family, fatherhood, sex, politics, aggression, gender, and death-subjects that lie at the core of our lives__My seemingly ordinary photographs arise from the grainy space between chance and fiction, provoking thought on their political and aesthetic connections_Within this framework, I am working on a long-term, subjective documentary.
Sinem Dişli
Sinem Dişli is a visual artist born in Şanlıurfa, Turkey. She received her BFA in Sculpture from Dokuz Eylül University in 2004 and earned an MFA in Photography from Marmara University, where her thesis focused on “The Use of Photography in the Art Movements of the 20th Century and Photography’s Relationship with the Concept of Avant-Garde.” Between 2005 and 2008, she worked in the Photography Department of Istanbul Modern. In 2008, with her interdisciplinary project Özdirenç (Resistance) combining photography and visual arts, she was awarded a scholarship to attend the School of Visual Arts in New York, later continuing her studies at ICP (International Center of Photography) and The Cooper Union.
Her interdisciplinary practice has been presented in solo exhibitions, including Deep Time: Faces of Matter (2022), Hollows and Mounds (2019), Rutubet (2017), Cereyan (Currents) (2015), Anamnesis (2013), Intiba (First Impression)(2011), Özdirenç (Resistance) (2007), and Anxiety (2004). She has also exhibited widely in international group shows such as Grounded (Venice Architecture Biennale, 2025), A Pillar of Smoke (Rencontres d’Arles, 2018), You Are What You Eat (Krakow Photo Month, 2019), Crystal Clear(Pera Museum, 2020), Sandstorm – And Then There Was Dust (Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin, 2021), Sound is the Silence of the Image (Foto Wien, 2022), and Future and Contemporaneity (14th Havana Biennial, 2022).
Dişli was highlighted by The New York Times in 2018 as one of the “7 Promising Photographers to Watch” and was nominated for the Prix Pictet Award in 2019. Her residencies include Triangle Arts Association (2015), ISCP (2015), Marble House Project (2020), LMCC (2022), Residency On The Road (2023), Beykoz Kundura (2024), and Nature, Art & Habitat Residency, Milan (2025).
She currently lives and works between Istanbul and New York.
Yesim Ustaoglu wurde 1960 in Sarikamis in der östlichen Türkei geboren. Sie studierte Architektur mit dem Schwerpunkt Gebäuderestauration an der Universität in Yildiz. Nach dem Studium arbeitete sie als freie Filmjournalistin und leitete Video-Workshops. Nach vier Kurzfilmen und ihrem Spielfilmdebüt „Iz“ („Die Spur„) im Jahr 1994, folgte 1999 ihr zweiter Spielfilm „Journey to the Sun“ („Reise zur Sonne“), der mit großem Erfolg auch in Deutschland in die Kinos kam. Der Film fordert zur Auseinandersetzung mit den Verständigungsschwierigkeiten zwischen Türken und Kurden auf.
2001 war Yesim Ustaoglu Gast des Berliner Künstlerprogramms. In dieser Zeit entwickelte sie das Drehbuch zu ihrem nächsten Spielfilm „Waiting for the Clouds“ (2004) und knüpfte Kontakte zur Berliner Filmbranche. Der Film, eine Co-Produktion der Länder Türkei, Griechenland, Frankreich und Deutschland, wurde erstmals bei den Internationalen Filmfestspielen in Berlin präsentiert und erzählt von der 60jährigen Ayshe, deren Eltern orthodoxe Griechen waren und während der Vertreibung der griechischen Minderheit in den Jahren 1916-23 ums Leben kamen. Statt ihrem Bruder ins Waisenhaus zu folgen, ließ sie sich als Kind von einer türkischen Familie adoptieren und verbarg somit 50 Jahre lang ihre wahre Identität. Wieder widmet sich Yesim Ustaoglu einem totgeschwiegenen, politischen Thema: die Vertreibung und Vernichtung der Schwarzmeergriechen durch den noch jungen türkischen Staat. „Waiting for the Clouds“ gewann beim 23. Istanbuler Internationalen Filmfestival den Spezialpreis der Jury sowie den Preis für die beste Schauspielerin. Der Film lief in den deutschen Kinos und wurde von der Filmzeitschrift „epd“ im Dezember 2005 zum Film des Monats gewählt.