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06/18/2026 - 09/18/2026
Galeri NEV
Splendid Palace, Büyükada
Galerist and Galeri Nev bring together Yıldız Moran and Şahin Kaygun in the exhibition titled "The Beautiful Island of a Summer's Sky," to be held at Splendid Palace in Büyükada. Taking its name from Lord Byron's line "Fair Island of a Summer's Sky," the exhibition unites the two artists, who represent almost entirely different ways of seeing in Turkish photography, in the same space from June 18 to September 18, 2026.
Yıldız Moran, in her photographs taken in Büyükada in the early 1950s and exhibited for the first time at Splendid, observes people, daily life, and the landscape almost like a documentary filmmaker, but documents them like a poet. Şahin Kaygun, on the other hand, treats photography not merely as a tool for recording images, but as a surface open to intervention, layering, and reconstruction. He scrapes, paints, transforms surfaces with chemical processes, and meticulously reconstructs the image. Thus, in this exhibition where the two artists come together, the possibilities of photography to witness reality, to distort it, and to reinvent it are made visible.
Galeri NEV
Splendid Palace, Büyükada
Galerist and Galeri Nev bring together Yıldız Moran and Şahin Kaygun in the exhibition titled "The Beautiful Island of a Summer's Sky," to be held at Splendid Palace in Büyükada. Taking its name from Lord Byron's line "Fair Island of a Summer's Sky," the exhibition unites the two artists, who represent almost entirely different ways of seeing in Turkish photography, in the same space from June 18 to September 18, 2026.
Yıldız Moran, in her photographs taken in Büyükada in the early 1950s and exhibited for the first time at Splendid, observes people, daily life, and the landscape almost like a documentary filmmaker, but documents them like a poet. Şahin Kaygun, on the other hand, treats photography not merely as a tool for recording images, but as a surface open to intervention, layering, and reconstruction. He scrapes, paints, transforms surfaces with chemical processes, and meticulously reconstructs the image. Thus, in this exhibition where the two artists come together, the possibilities of photography to witness reality, to distort it, and to reinvent it are made visible.