I try to escape systems. Yet in the attempt to be systemless, systems begin to form. Not rigid ones, but fragile, organic formations held together by tension.

I paint to explore this tension. Each work unfolds processually as an unstable system. Not designed, but grown. There is no plan – but there are forces: rhythm, interruption, resistance.

Yes, there is expression. Of course. But no message. What interests me is thinking within the image – the moment in which it might say: I could become something. Or not.

The painting develops its own logic in the process of making. Not because I understand it, but because I remain long enough for it to begin thinking itself.
What interests me is the space where clarity fails – and something else begins.

Cansu Sezer (b. 1987, Düsseldorf) is a German-Turkish artist based in Zurich.
She initially studied at the Kassel University of Art and later earned a degree in Commercial Art & Design in Düsseldorf. After working for several years as a Creative Director in leading agencies across the German-speaking region, she shifted her focus toward an independent artistic practice.

Her works do not arise from construction, but from internal movement – as living structures that carve out their own path, beyond fixed systems, in the tension between instinct and dissolution.

In 2024, her paintings were presented at the British Art Fair at Saatchi Gallery in London.