Betül Aksu







Betül AksuVranofça Archive
2024 - ongoing Vranofça Archive is a long-term project by Betül Aksu that gathers the stories of families from Vranofça (Gorno Vranovci), a village in present-day North Macedonia, who migrated to Turkey in 1955. Through oral histories, family photographs, everyday objects, and domestic rituals, the archive centers the lives and memories of women, tracing how migration continues to shape identity, culture, and belonging across generations.

Rather than existing as a fixed collection, the archive is an active space of remembering. It is housed at sezon, an artist-run space in Izmir, where regular public programs such as exhibitions, meals, and conversations invite reflection and dialogue between generations and communities.

Rooted in Betül’s own family history, the project becomes a broader meditation on how personal narratives can speak to political histories. It asks what is lost when official records fail to capture lived experience, and how memory can be preserved through informal, collective practices. Vranofça Archive holds space for the stories that persist, not in archives of power, but in the shared gestures of remembering together.