- Film & Video
- Photography
- Music
The Great South
Serpil Aygün, Gülseven Medar
3 July 2026 19:00–22:00
4 July 2026 10:00 – 5 July 2026 19:00
The Great South is a photographic–musical project that emerged from memories of my childhood and was created in the summer of 2025 in the heart of Anatolia. At its center is an emotional dialogue between voice and image: photographs respond to the singing, echo melodies, and reflect moods of longing, connection, and origin.
The work moves within a space between interior and exterior worlds. Landscapes are not understood as geographical places but as emotional territories in which memory, experience, and projection intertwine. The “South” appears less as a concrete direction than as an inner state — a space shaped by expectation, melancholy, pain, exhaustion, and moments of liberation.
Within the project, boundaries do not appear as clear lines but as permeable zones: between voice and image, past and present, origin and present experience. The photographs dwell in these spaces without attempting to resolve them.
In the context of Neukölln — a district shaped by transitions, ruptures, and constant renegotiations — the work gains a particular resonance. The Great South understands identity not as a fixed attribution, but as a process that takes form in the in-between.
The work moves within a space between interior and exterior worlds. Landscapes are not understood as geographical places but as emotional territories in which memory, experience, and projection intertwine. The “South” appears less as a concrete direction than as an inner state — a space shaped by expectation, melancholy, pain, exhaustion, and moments of liberation.
Within the project, boundaries do not appear as clear lines but as permeable zones: between voice and image, past and present, origin and present experience. The photographs dwell in these spaces without attempting to resolve them.
In the context of Neukölln — a district shaped by transitions, ruptures, and constant renegotiations — the work gains a particular resonance. The Great South understands identity not as a fixed attribution, but as a process that takes form in the in-between.
Biography
Serpil Aygün, Gülseven Medar
Serpil Aygün was born and raised in the “Great South” of Germany, in the heart of Baden-Württemberg. She spent part of her school years and completed her high school diploma in Istanbul — a life between two worlds that continues to shape her today.
After studying History and Philosophy for teaching in Heidelberg and Darmstadt, she moved to Berlin in 2016, where she works as a teacher and follows her passion for photography.
In her photographic work, she explores the emotional landscape between origin and present — between place, memory, and feeling.
She is currently deepening her photographic practice at the Photocentrum of the Gilberto Bosques Adult Education Center (Volkshochschule) in Berlin.
After studying History and Philosophy for teaching in Heidelberg and Darmstadt, she moved to Berlin in 2016, where she works as a teacher and follows her passion for photography.
In her photographic work, she explores the emotional landscape between origin and present — between place, memory, and feeling.
She is currently deepening her photographic practice at the Photocentrum of the Gilberto Bosques Adult Education Center (Volkshochschule) in Berlin.
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