BIO
As a Turkish-speaking Cypriot artist, my practice unfolds at the intersection of memory, identity, and cultural displacement. Rooted in personal and broader diasporic narratives, my work engages with the emotional and ideological issues shaped by migration and longing. I get the drive to create art from the silent histories carried by the women in my family, to weave together past and present through a lens that is both spiritual and embodied.
To exist is to carry histories, written and unwritten on one’s body. It is to inhabit fractures of migration, inherited violence of patriarchy and colonialism. How do we name the violence and trauma? For the female body it is not named but it is felt. At the core of my exploration, I try to search for answers. I see the remnants of exploitation in my grandmother's hands, in my grandpa’s destroyed vineyards, in the stones of the house my family were forced to abandon. How many generations will it take for the wound of displacement to heal? Who will resolve the identity crisis created by being a second and third-generation immigrant raised with the hatred and loss of war?
In displacement, I try to position my art as a form of resistance and reconciliation, a space where boundaries dissolve into patterns, form, and color. My creative language speaks of diasporic formations and of womanhood shaped in the shadows of forgotten history. Through my work, I try to transform memory into visual poetics to reclaim my truth. For me, creation progress is almost a ritual to restore and better understand each and every woman in my family. Wandering in between self and society, my art becomes an intimate archive: a site of both rupture and continuity, of ancestral echo and personal belonging.