Serpil Mavi Üstün Turkey, b. 1979

Serpil graduated from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University , Nes ‘e Erdok Studio in 2008 . She attended Husnu Koldas ‘s arcaic mosaics , fresco and sigrafito workshop for a further two years . Serpil has been living and working in London since 2016.

The artist dealing with loneliness of the individual of the present-day; makes us confront with the personal stories of her fragile, perturbed, melancholic, heroes and heroines who refer to solitude. Some of these moments that Serpil dwells on, there are some personal eccentricities, which appear in a passive aggressive way.

Even sometimes the personas of her painting make us think that they are taking a kind of pleasure to procreate drama. They can seem indifferent in a case or atmosphere where they are supposed to take pleasure. In a moment that seems ideal, beautiful or happy they can sabotage it. These heroes, who ruin their own pastel world, reflect the conflicts that we deal with, in our daily routine.

The matter that the artist focuses on her painting is not storytelling; but by focusing on the individual in a fragment from life to reflect their trouble.Mavi Ustun thinks that in the source of this fact resides the agony of the individual who has been caught in a trap of existence and surrounded with the means of the social system. Personages of her paintings symbolize the person who fights back and reacts to this circumstance. While transforming the impressions, fantasies, evocations and images; into a scene of a fleeting moment, she leaves the previous and the future scene to the imagination of the viewer.