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Nazif Can Akçalı

Born in Manisa, Türkiye, in 1996, Nazif Can Akçalı lives and works in Paris. He is a French-Turkish visual artist, visual communication designer, and Pilates instructor. He graduated in 2021 from the Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design programme at Sabancı University in Istanbul, and went on to pursue a master’s degree at the École supérieure d’art Dunkerque–Tourcoing. He also completed the Gramounce Food & Art Alternative MA. He has taken part in artistic residencies at the Institute for Postnatural Studies in Madrid and La Foresta – Accademia di Comunità in Rovereto, Italy. Between 2024 and 2026, he developed his work at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains. His artistic research explores longevity, biohacking, gastrophysics, and food through diverse media, investigating symbiosis, questioning our relationship to food, and transforming eating into an artistic experience.