Mehmet Ali Uysal - Block

About

Mehmet Ali Uysal creates large-scale installations that are integrated into the material of the building they are situated in, transforming the venue and altering both the viewer’s perception of the space as well as how they move around it.  Today, the process of creating, exhibiting, and perceiving contemporary art is deeply intertwined with the austere, white walled gallery space that continuously erases traces of its history in order to look perfect and untouched. Uysal wants to invert this tradition and revive the gallery space as a living entity by interfering directly in the structure of the white cube and deconstructing both its formal characteristics and inherited traditions.