Summer Artist 2023: Baran Caginli
Baran Caginli (b.1990, Istanbul) was the seventh Summer Artist at Kunsthalle Seinäjoki. He worked between the 19th of June and the 18th of August. During the summer Caginli began a project that is an encounter between the artist and the local community and the exchange of knowledge to bake bread together. The artist shared his ceramic knowledge with people who can teach him their own, local or inherited bread recipes. It was a platform for sharing knowledge, experience, stories and learning from each other. The artist produced ceramic molds for baking breads in the form of recipe owners faces. The recipe owners baked their own bread in these molds. In the end of the Summer artist’s job period, the bread was eaten together at an event in the art and culture centre Kalevan Navetta.
Baran Caginli lives and works in Helsinki. His works underline universal and global concerns by highlighting the problematics of, and contradictions of power, governmental conflicts, military systems, systematic repression, identity, and discrimination. Through diverse media, including photography, sculpture, installation, and archival material, he includes elements of hand-made skill and techniques. Caginli integrates layers of camouflage or concealment, re-constituting them and giving them a voice in a new context, and to adding to them subtle messaging and gestures
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Baran Caginli received the ESSL Art Prize in 2015 and has been involved in many national and international collections and projects. Caginli’s work was exhibited at the Helsinki Biennale, 2021, and is currently on view at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts’ master’s degree exhibition, Kuvan Kevät 2023 in Helsinki.
Baran Caginli, kuva Sami Parkkinen
