by Tuğçe Aydın & Anna Homann & Kerstin Pohle & Aylin Vartanyan ///Following the traces of Kassia in Yedikule and Studios Monastery///. As Kassia strolls in an old Byzantium neighbourhood, she becomes visible only for a few seconds. /// How to trace a 1200-year-old woman in the palimpsest of an ancient city ? Credits: Tuğçe Aydın & Anna Homann & Kerstin Pohle & Aylin Vartanyan in dialogue with KASSIA - Istanbul/Berlin 2022

by Tuğçe Aydın & Anna Homann & Kerstin Pohle & Aylin Vartanyan /// Mapping Kassia /// Searching for Kassia in the details entrapped in the daily life of Balat Credits: Tuğçe Aydın & Anna Homann & Kerstin Pohle & Aylin Vartanyan in dialogue with KASSIA - Istanbul/Berlin 2022

by Tuğçe Aydın & Anna Homann & Kerstin Pohle & Aylin Vartanyan /// Even-though it might seem absurd, it’s not difficult to imagine another reality here. Hagia Sophia, you have seen it all. /// Stones keep the secret. Kassia has listened to them all. /// Surrounded by the thousands, I have seen you there. Credits: Tuğçe Aydın & Anna Homann & Kerstin Pohle & Aylin Vartanyan in dialogue with KASSIA - Istanbul/Berlin 2022

by Tuğçe Aydın & Anna Homann & Kerstin Pohle & Aylin Vartanyan /// I lit a candle and my only wish is to see you for one second. You lit a candle, to stay here one more second. /// What could have Kassia wished for on the first day of the month? /// Water flows, water changes, water cleans. Water comes back to give life as we drink it. /// “I belong to this rituals no matter where I come from or where I’m going to.” Credits: Tuğçe Aydın & Anna Homann & Kerstin Pohle & Aylin Vartanyan in dialogue with KASSIA - Istanbul/Berlin 2022

by Tuğçe Aydın & Anna Homann & Kerstin Pohle & Aylin Vartanyan /// Away from the walls enclosing another reality, closer to the sea, as if it will bring you to me./// Constructing a city over city, layer after layer, doesn’t mean that I will lose you. /// Boats wait to cross the sea as Kassia is watching them on the shore. Credits: Tuğçe Aydın & Anna Homann & Kerstin Pohle & Aylin Vartanyan in dialogue with KASSIA - Istanbul/Berlin 2022