BIO
Güneş Terkol graduated from the Painting Department at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University and received her master’s degree in Art and Design from Yıldız Technical University. Employing fabric, sewing, sound, and drawing, Terkol deals with issues around gender in her practice. Believing in the importance of collective work and shared purpose, the artist has produced collaborative works in workshops held across various countries, drawing inspiration from everyday realities and imaginaries. Since 2005, she has created works both individually and as part of the artist collective Ha Za Vu Zu. Since 2017, she has also been part of the women’s artist collective Alaca Heyheyler and continues to perform with her music group GuGuOu.
PROJECT
A multidisciplinary project by Güneş Terkol in collaboration with her mother Elmira Terkol, Layers of a Migration Story –later renamed Epipe– traces a multi-stage migration from Russia to China, and eventually to Türkiye. Developed over two decades through interviews, archives, and collected objects, the research explores collective remembrance, resilience, and adaptation across shifting geographies. Reimagined through everyday practices and carriers of memory, the project centers on migration chests and their symbolic contents, bringing together oral testimonies, family narratives, and cultural materials to uncover layered histories embedded in personal and communal experience.