At the center of Uysal’s practice are the place of the individual and the authority of materiality in today’s rapidly changing environment.  Whether referencing rapid urbanization, along with its displacement of individuals and communities, or the growing materiality and object-focused art market, the individual is at the core of Uysal’s entrancing body of work.

From outdoor landscapes to gallery walls and picture frames, Uysal creates key parallels between physical surfaces and the sensory pulse of the human skin, malleable enough to be pinched, ripped, contorted, and torn off. His installations alter our perception of spaces as containers for personal and collective memory, evoking our relation to authority and even our own identity.

In a site-specific work commissioned especially for the Sapar gallery, and a new addition to Uysal’s “Peel” series, a wall sliding down the stairs reveals echoes of the building’s past lives, captured behind the exposed cement. The picture frames of“Suspended”lose their original function as borders marking the limits of an artwork to become deformed specimens hung on the wall for appraisal like hunting trophies.