Demet KarapıNar

Visual artist and academic with a strong focus in mixed media, digital art and augmented reality.

We are at the dawn of the post-nature era. The definition and boundaries of reality are constantly changing. The artist aims to discover the new aesthetic norms of this new era by creating inorganic lifeforms and new environments in her 3d abstract works.

The choice of materials, textures and patterns in the compositions give us hints about the artificiality of this environment. Shiny, translucent and smooth surfaces depict a tamed, alternative nature. In this world, nature is free from its brutality and imperfections and exists only to please the human eye.

This is a fundamentally altered nature and it evolves rapidly.

1999 - BA in Painting, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir - Turkey
2002 - MA in Graphic Design, Marmara University, Istanbul - Turkey
2008 - PhD in Graphic Design, Marmara University, Istanbul - Turkey