RONÎDA HACÎ

Hasakah- 22-year-old painter Canda Ebdulqadir has turned her room into a painting exhibition by decorating it with her paintings. She is also a decorator and the eldest child in her family. We spoke to the young woman, who lives in the Til Hecer neighborhood of Hasakah about her love for painting and decoration.

“The painting appeals to emotions”

Stating that the painting offers people a great opportunity to share their feelings, Canda Ebdulqadir said, “People communicated with each other through cave paintings before the written languages emerged. When I was a child, I loved to paint and my love for painting grows every day. Anyone who wants to paint should have a past and a love of art. After attending an art workshop, I started to paint professionally. Art offers people a great opportunity to share their feelings. For me, painting means expressing emotions and bringing those emotions to life. The painting appeals to emotions.”

“Women’s personality traits are as rich as nature”

Underlining that women’s personality traits are as rich as nature, Canda Ebduelqadir said, “I love nature. I portray nature as realistically as possible in my paintings so that the people who look at my paintings feel like they look at a living nature. Surely, each of my paintings has a message. Each of my paintings reflects feelings.”

“Women should reveal their artistic skills”

Canda Ebdulqadir participated in a painting exhibition called women's art and literature exhibition. Stating that painting exhibitions give women artists and painters the opportunity to promote their artwork, Canda Ebdulqadir talked about the exhibition that she participated in as follows: “I participated in the exhibition with my two paintings. The subject in my paintings is women. In my paintings, I want to create resistant and combative women and show them to everyone. Women should reveal their artistic skills by participating in exhibitions and festivals. The colors in my paintings reflect the love of nature and women’s personality traits. There are many talented and artistic women and I hope they don’t hide their talents anymore.”

Women’s struggle in art

Noting that women artists should prove themselves and protect their art, Canda Ebdulqadir said, “Every artist should reflect women’s struggle in their artworks. As a Kurdish painter, I am proud to be able to express the resistance and struggle of women in my paintings. Now, women have many opportunities to exhibit their artworks.”