Aykan Safoğlu stages interdisciplinary narrations where migration, familial lineage, and historical time contest his own desires, dreams, and practice. His hybrid artistic forms fragment, document, reproduce, and reorient ontological questions in film, photography, and performance. The artist received his MFA in photography from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (US). Recipient of the Grand Prize of the City of Oberhausen at the 59th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (2013) and the Birgit Jürgenssen Prize (2021), Safoğlu is currently a PhD candidate at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT).