Mehmet Ali Uysal

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LIFE IS SO BEAUTIFUL! 23.09.2023 – 17.11.2023 Pi Artworks Istanbul I Turkey

 When I feel bad, a friend of mine appears next to me who claims that life is beautiful despite everything. Of course, this is a sign of human behaviour. I am sure many of us have experienced such situations. We continue to live by accepting the content of this sentence we find new excitements, we start again and again as if we have noother choice. Thus, we get out of that depressing mood, forget what and why we were questioning and return to the flow of ordinary life. We become ordinary and heal. But how much does the absence of suffering help us to increase our awareness. Is the absence of suffering enough for individuals and communities to thrive? If all negative conditions were eliminated, what would make life worth living? I am not claiming that the life was ugly or bad, but I do not know how long I can convince myself of the lie that ‘life is beautiful’. 

BATIK / COULE 17.09.2023-22.10.2023 Frence Embassy Ankara I Turkey

The idea of submerging Le Bon Marché underwater can also be seen in the ”Coule” exhibition, displayed in the garden of the French Embassy in Ankara. The artist transforms the garden into an water image. In the garden, you can see ten sunken boats, each measuring six meters.

SU / EAU 8.01.2022-20.02.2022 Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche I France

Each year Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche gives carte blanche to a contemporary artist and showcases their creative vision, an occasion that has become an unmissable artistic event in Paris. Mehmet Ali Uysal has imagined “Su” this year. It means “water” in Turkish. Two monumental icebergs give shape to the installation, installed either side of the emblematic Andrée Putman escalator. These suspended ice cathedrals are enormous works rising up to the glass roof, representing the level of the sea, just above visitors’ heads. And if one is massive, the other, in two parts, is thinner and floats slightly higher. As a symbol of the ice melting, this water then spreads to the department store’s window displays thanks to a clever play on light”.