Türkçe
Ayşegül Karakaş was born in Izmir in 1989 and graduated from Department of Painting at Faculty of Fine Arts in Dokuz Eylül University. In her ascendant career Karakaş has already participated in many group exhibitions. She describes the nature element that appears in her works with a different perspective and explains:
“In my paintings I reverse nature’s attractive character, and I reinterpret it by combining daily life’s gloominess with fantasized reality. Instead of the classic feeling of joy associated with nature, I create an environment based on tension. I try to add a different layer to the familiar reality of it. And I approach the figure within this perception of nature that remains outside the realm of ordinary life. My compositions generally have this feeling of suspense. The anonymous figures in my paintings run towards a timeless atmosphere. This way, time somehow remains suspended. As if the figure is in some kind of a purgatory, stuck in between a beginning and an aftermath.”
