Sevgi Macide Canik
Rolling Residency
Sevgi Macide Canik is a multidisciplinary artist whose work examines the aesthetic-political dimensions of collective memory, labor, and ritual gestures through the body-space relationship. During her time in Paris, her practice has expanded through scenographic and dramaturgical contexts at the Opéra national de Paris, the Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe, and the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord.
In her research at ENSAPB (École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-Belleville), she approaches ritual not as a theme but as a methodological lens through which to read the temporalities at work on scenographic space. Through her notion of passage, she defines scenographic space as a porous threshold of transfer: a site where processes initiated elsewhere condense, transform, and circulate outward. Her practice seeks to render different temporal regimes visible through vulnerable objects and embodied gestures, rethinking the political potential and institutional conditions of space through these temporal arrangements.
