Sevgi Macide is a conceptual artist of the theater. After studying architecture in Istanbul, she pursued a post-master’s program in art and scenography in Paris. During her time in Paris, she gained hands-on experience with fabrication and production processes at the Opéra national de Paris, the Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe, and the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, as well as in Nantes, in collaboration with Angers Nantes Opéra, where she further developed her practice across directing, dramaturgy, and scenographic design.

 

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 stage. Through the notion of passage, she defines the stage as a porous threshold of transfer, a site where processes initiated outside condense and are then redistributed outward. Her aim is therefore less to invent a new object than to render different temporal regimes visible through “fragile”, or devalued objects and repetitive gestures, thereby rethinking the political and critical potential of the space through these temporal dispositifs.