Cansu Korkmaz is a Turkish visual artist living and working in New York. Their work examines ways of documenting intimacy, memory, and identity, challenging photography’s ability to compartmentalize the physical and the ethereal within rapidly evolving social landscapes. The artist approaches photography both as a physical entity—the printed image—and a fleeting gesture—the captured moment. They deconstruct methods of capturing a subject and storing its printed version, asking: If memories are fluid and non-chronological, why are photographs so pristine? Their work seeks hidden narratives by orchestrating various images, creating a subjective, imperfect reality where the images rebel against the norm and build their own version of “being,” much like a queer body.
