Mehmet Ali Uysal

Uysal believes that the mind shapes our perception of events, so that our recollection of occurrences are biased, and that this perception shifts with time. According to this thought, the reality experienced in a home creates and adds to the consciousness of the physical space, which in turn intrinsically records all occurrences taking place within its four walls. By means of the works, which are exclusively created for Don't Abandon Me, Uysal wishes to transcribe and share with the viewer some of the memories that would have otherwise vanished from his mind.

Pi Artworks London is pleased to announce Ankara-based Turkish artist Mehmet Ali Uysal's first UK solo exhibition. Last year, Uysal was invited to create new work for the 2014 European City of Culture, Umea, Sweden and his best-known public sculpture SKIN, that is situated in Chaudfontaine Park, Liege, Belgium, was included in a top-ten list of public art commissions compiled by The Independent newspaper.

In his third solo show at Pi Artworks Istanbul, Mehmet Ali Uysal reveals his Paintings to the audience. However, these Paintings are not immediately visible, but rather, exist in the space between presence and absence. Uysal explores and experiments with the perception of the viewer and provokes the audience to visualize these embedded works in the wall. In fact, the gallery space is rendered completely white, calling for the viewer's eyes to slowly discover Uysal' embedded installations. These are made of plaster, as is the gallery itself, and appear in a variety of blank bulky renaissance frames of different forms and sizes.

The artist puts forth his first personal exhibition in Pi Artworks by utilizing two different spaces of the gallery. The exhibition titled “Tebdilibeden” in Gallery 2, which he prepared taking the relationship of similarity among the architectural structure and the body as the starting point, is based on works making references to the “Tebdilimekan” exhibition in 2005. In his works, Mehmet Ali Uysal compares the relationship of the Architectural structure to the body with the relationship of the skin to the wall and replies the relationship between Body/Skin with the metaphor of Architectural Structure/Wall.