Hande Sever (b. Hande Lara Sever, 1990) is a writer and research-based artist whose work explores the excavation of lost texts and distant images, examining how their production and dissemination inform historical revisionism and shape archival practices. Grounded in theories of sovereignty and necropolitics, Sever's research interrogates the ways in which historical narratives are shaped and manipulated, particularly in the context of military violence, surveillance, and censorship. Often drawing from her own family’s history of persecution, her lens-based practice explores the intersection of personal and collective memory, uncovering how visual culture is used to both erase and construct historical narratives. Sever’s work has been exhibited internationally at the Hauser & Wirth in Somerset (2018); Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna (2021); Georg Kolbe Museum in Berlin (2025); Wereldmuseum in Amsterdam (2025); Czong Institute for Contemporary Art in Seoul (2021); REDCAT: Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater (2025) and the Wende Museum of the Cold War (2025) in Los Angeles, among others. Her essays and interviews on art, architecture, and public space have been published or are forthcoming in the Oxford Art Journal, Getty Research Journal, FIELD: A Journal of Socially Engaged Criticism, Stedelijk Studies, Public Art Dialogue, MARCH: A Journal of Art and Strategy, X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, and Frieze Magazine. Sever’s work has been supported by grants from the Félix González-Torres Foundation, California Arts Council, Eidolon Center for Everyday Photography, Allianz Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the Hrant Dink Foundation.