Biography
Cansu Sönmez was born in Istanbul, Turkey, in 1991. She graduated from Marmara University Atatürk Education Faculty (Painting Department) in 2013 and continued her studies at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in the Basic Art and Design Master’s Programme. In 2013, she became interested in dystopia as a theme for her work, videotaping and photographing the production of lifeless mannequins in a factory. She aims to show the relationship between mankind, the city, and nature, delving deeply into a Magritte-like pop surrealism.
From street art to kinetic art, Sönmez values the mental struggle and intellectual abstraction arising from the dialectic between consciousness and unconsciousness. Through her works using Lego pieces, Sönmez depicts the dystopian phenomenon of unplanned urbanisation in her country.
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