Roosters III Painting

𝘈𝘺𝘴𝘦 𝘒𝘢𝘱𝘶𝘴𝘶𝘻 is a figurative painter exploring the quiet places where identity softens and the self becomes briefly visible. Her portraits capture people in moments when the noise of outer labels fades, leaving only the fragile architecture of who they truly are. She treats space as a second portrait, not a backdrop, but a witness. Rooms, empty fields, worn walls and drifting skies hold the emotional temperature of her figures. This understanding of space is also informed by her long running intervention practice DamagedWallArt, a project she has sustained since 2010. In her everyday movements through the city, she photographs cracked and decaying walls and, using the marker pen she always carries, responds to the forms she encounters by completing them with quick figurative drawings. These small, intuitive gestures, shared over the years under the hashtag #DamagedWallArt, reflect her sensitivity to overlooked surfaces and the silent narratives held inside urban textures. In her recent studio practice, Kapusuz focuses on how personal identity interacts with social and spatial environments. Working primarily in oil on canvas, she builds compositions that examine the impact of change, both internal and structural, on the human presence within a setting. Her observational approach to texture, posture and atmosphere creates portraits that function simultaneously as psychological studies and reflections on contemporary life. Alongside her studio work, Kapusuz spent many years volunteering with children living with disabilities and with families facing difficult living conditions. These experiences have deepened her sensitivity to empathy, communication and the subtle shifts that shape human connection. Her work has appeared in more than one hundred group exhibitions, both nationally and internationally.