Helin Cansu Serindağ is an interdisciplinary artist who places the anatomical knowledge she acquired through her medical training at the core of her artistic practice. In her series Anatomy Otherwise (2022–2024), she examines the white, heteronormative body represented in classical anatomy atlases as a reflection of the existing world order. By rendering bodies of diverse ethnic backgrounds and gender identities visible, Serindağ positions plurality and diversity against homogenizing norms.
This approach extends beyond the question of representation, opening new narrative possibilities at the intersection of the body, memory, identity, and lived experience. Bringing together different modes of artistic production, the artist invites viewers to reconsider the cultural, political, and personal layers of meaning embedded in the human body.
In her figurative oil paintings, Serindağ constructs scenes informed by emotion, memory, imagination, and lived experience. While her practice is fundamentally rooted in realism, she occasionally incorporates surreal elements and playful manipulations of perspective. Recognized for her vibrant color palette and the dynamic interplay of contrasting tones, she transforms even the most challenging subjects through an aesthetic lens, creating visual harmonies in which the human figure serves as both witness and narrator of personal experiences and social realities. For Serindağ, painting is a practice of embracing individual and collective wounds and destruction as generative forces, transforming them into acts of aesthetic restoration.