As a Turkish-speaking Cypriot artist, her practice unfolds at the intersection of memory, identity, and cultural displacement. Rooted in the personal yet echoing broader diasporic narratives, her work engages with the emotional and ideological fractures shaped by migration, memory, and inherited femininity. She draws deeply from the matrilineal line—those silent histories carried by the women in her family—to weave together past and present through a lens that is both spiritual and embodied.

 

At the heart of her exploration lies the island of Cyprus, and the enduring presence of ‘the Green Line’ a geopolitical scar that cleaves not only land, but identity. In this divided landscape, she positions her art as a form of resistance and reconciliation, a space where boundaries dissolve into texture, form, and color. Her creative language speaks of diasporic formations, of belonging as both a search and a return, and of womanhood shaped in the shadows of displacement.

 

Through her work, she does not simply revisit the past; she reimagines it, transforming memory into a visual poetics where silence speaks, and fragmentation becomes a mode of expression. In navigating the porous terrain between self and society, her art becomes an intimate archive: a site of both rupture and continuity, of ancestral echo and personal belonging.

 

She is currently based in the Netherlands, continuing to create art and being a part of ‘Studio Batman’ , an interdisciplinary studio based in Amsterdam as the exhibition curator.