Işıl Kapu completed her undergraduate and graduate studies in the Department of Sculpture at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. After graduating from the Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at Istanbul Technical University, She lives and works in Istanbul.
Işıl Kapu's focuses on reinterpretion and represention of figures from the Neolithic era from the archaeological sites of Anatolia. Kapu explores how the surface, mass, and form elements of the primitive object can be interpreted today by using contemporary production techniques and materials. Işıl Kapu transfers her archaic body abstractions, which she works on with sketches, to digital modeling, creates digital collages and rescales the sculpture while producing in the final stage. As the artist works with abstractions of the bodies of the figures, she uses repetition, addition and reduction. Thus she achives an ambigious form on the surfaces of archaic sculptures and reliefs. In her large-scale reliefs, the interlocking stage of the body takes on a topographic outlook. Kapu distances the sculpture from painting by using only one color, black, white, and grey, in the best way to highlight light, form, and mass of the sculpture. For polyester and concrete sculptures, Işıl Kapu establishes a relationship with light through matte and polished surfaces.