Memory Range Painting

Cansu Sonmez Born : 1991 Hometown : Istanbul / Turkey Lives & Works : Istanbul / Turkey I paint on canvas the lifeless and artificial state of images by using oil, mixed media, serigraphy or printing techniques. I nourish from dystopias and indicate the dangers of dystopias by using dummies. One can realize the domination of purple color in my paintings since I believe that it is the best way to express spiritual side of my artworks. My daily experiences, absurdnesses deriving from social pressure, enforced monotypes that surrounded the world, people’s avoidance of background, victimization of female body and identities of genders form the infrastructure of my paintings. These events gave me the feeling of artificiality as I focus on my life, my environment and the world as a whole. This artificiality, spiritlessness, lack of vigor increased my interest on dummies and dolls and the only medium I lean my imagination are the mass production dummies. I won the Admiration Award of Bazaart Exhibition that was held in Chalabi Art Gallery on March 27-30, 2013.