Ceren Saner: To Survive Inside The Ring with Photographs

The book takes it's name from the "ring bahn" the train route that is a circle around Berlin. At the same time references the boxing ring. As she states at the Kaos GL interview, photographs are always "the way to survive" for her.

The artist numbers the book that is published with 300 editions and contains sections hand-sewn by her. These stitches leave traces on the photographs at the reverse side of the pages.

The artist tells the sewedsections are her self-portraits and she sums her preference of this design as “sewing herself to the city”. She says, “And this can be expressed as a bond for myself in a place where I do not have a feeling of belonging, to create a trace from me to survive.”

The artist leaves the needle she sews the sections with in that edition. Thus, the viewer could be a part of the process and she remarks the sewing has not come to an end yet.