Bio
Özge Çelikaslan works across moving image, archival practice and research-based art, exploring questions of memory, place and archival ecologies through overlooked audiovisual materials. Her installations and archival assemblages investigate how gaps and absences in archives can open space for silenced narratives and contested histories. She holds a PhD from Braunschweig University of Art and is co-founder of bak.ma, a collaborative digital archive of social movements. Her work has been presented internationally and supported through numerous fellowships and residencies.
Project Description
During her residency at the
South African History Archive, Özge Çelikaslan will investigate how archives sustain accountability when records are fragmented, vulnerable or threatened with disappearance. Building on her long-term work with activist archives and endangered audiovisual collections, she considers how archival materials continue to function as evidence and testimony long after the events they document. The project combines archival mapping, visual assemblage and reflective writing, approaching the archive as a living ecosystem in which memory, evidence and care remain in constant negotiation.
