Betül AksuThere is sun, surprisingly
2020
Video, 5’16’’


There is sun, surprisingly traces the emotional terrain of displacement and the quiet resilience that emerges from it. During the isolation of the first Covid-19 lockdown, the artist revisited seven years of footage recorded abroad, searching for moments that speak beyond personal memory. By pairing unrelated images and sounds, the film invites viewers into a space where fiction and reality coexist, where the act of leaving home becomes both a rupture and a form of renewal.

The structure draws on Oro, a traditional Macedonian dance performed in a circle, reimagined here as a non-linear movement through space and time. Fragments from different countries gather side by side, forming overlapping circles of experience. Rather than following a fixed path, the film moves in loops and detours, suggesting that meaning can be found not in arrival, but in the act of moving, remembering, and beginning again.


Exhibitions
2021    Libertikons, STAMP Altonale, Hamburg
2020   Freedom of Movement, Journeys Festival International, online