( Soft Continuum)

  • Dates
    2019 - Ongoing
  • Author
  • Locations Colombo, Pokhara, Istanbul, Tbilisi, İzmir, Phnom Penh, Antalya, Phuket, Bursa, Foça

Soft Continuum traces fragile endurance amid collapse, weaving fragments of place, memory, and emotion to explore how tenderness and observation sustain life within dissonance.

Since 2019, Soft Continuum has evolved as a living archive of endurance and care, tracing the fragile persistence of life amid collapse, where tenderness and memory survive within dissonance and silence becomes a form of resistance.

Each photograph I take stands alone, yet together they form a dispersed language of meaning, fragments shaped by collective and personal memory.

This project moves between places I keep leaving and returning to, unfolding like a quiet elegy for what remains.
We live in a time of trembling, where what is fragile constantly disappears. In every place I visit I sense the same fatigue, the same quiet unease.
And each time I return home the silence feels heavier, the systems more hollow, the sense of care more distant. The media is largely controlled and information flows only when convenient.
Freedom of speech, democracy, and equality have weakened. Those in power prey on the vulnerable, women, queer people, and children, eroding any sense of justice and turning violence into habit.
Nature too is being stripped away, forests cut for mines, lands burned and sold. As the economy collapses even resistance consumes what little strength remains.

Perhaps that is mostly why my gaze turns inward.
I look for what still breathes within exhaustion, for the small gestures that hold meaning even when unseen. Sometimes a wall remembers, sometimes silence does.

© Kıvılcım S güngörün - my minefield fenced, İstanbul, 2020
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my minefield fenced, İstanbul, 2020

© Kıvılcım S güngörün - Street glitter, Tbilisi, 2023
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Street glitter, Tbilisi, 2023

© Kıvılcım S güngörün - Pulse down / Pulls up, İstanbul, 2022
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Pulse down / Pulls up, İstanbul, 2022

© Kıvılcım S güngörün - Hold me tight, Phuket, 2019
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Hold me tight, Phuket, 2019

© Kıvılcım S güngörün - Caveskin, Antalya, 2019
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Caveskin, Antalya, 2019

© Kıvılcım S güngörün - I wait, Colombo, 2019
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I wait, Colombo, 2019

© Kıvılcım S güngörün - Company in a trap, Sri Lanka, 2019
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Company in a trap, Sri Lanka, 2019

© Kıvılcım S güngörün - Cuffed-tree / They felled this tree., İstanbul, 2021
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Cuffed-tree / They felled this tree., İstanbul, 2021

© Kıvılcım S güngörün - Looking down/ locking up,  İstanbul, 2020
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Looking down/ locking up, İstanbul, 2020

© Kıvılcım S güngörün - Mute yawn, Phnom Phen, 2019
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Mute yawn, Phnom Phen, 2019

© Kıvılcım S güngörün - Urban Transformation for Profit, Istanbul, 2023
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Urban Transformation for Profit, Istanbul, 2023

© Kıvılcım S güngörün - Glans-ce in, İstanbul, 2022
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Glans-ce in, İstanbul, 2022

© Kıvılcım S güngörün - From Concrete to Flight, Istanbul, 2023
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From Concrete to Flight, Istanbul, 2023

© Kıvılcım S güngörün - Cuffed-skin, İstanbul, 2021
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Cuffed-skin, İstanbul, 2021

© Kıvılcım S güngörün - Passage, Foça, 2021
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Passage, Foça, 2021

© Kıvılcım S güngörün - Istanbul’s Maçka Park, 2021
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Istanbul’s Maçka Park, 2021

© Kıvılcım S güngörün - Nuptial night, İstanbul , 20
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Nuptial night, İstanbul , 20

© Kıvılcım S güngörün - Poisoned double, Pokhara, 2023
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Poisoned double, Pokhara, 2023

© Kıvılcım S güngörün - Clean-ce out, İstanbul, 2020
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Clean-ce out, İstanbul, 2020

© Kıvılcım S güngörün - Kaz Mountains / Mine field, Çanakkale, 2019
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Kaz Mountains / Mine field, Çanakkale, 2019