Porcelain works reflect on ‘Habitat’ exhibition

As an artist, Melis Buyruk uses her material very meticulously and effectively. Her works are a proof of real detailed works full of mastership. However, not only her way of using material is a great detail about her art, but also her way of thinking about nature, life and all living organisms is such a gift for the viewer.
Her show in Leila Heller Gallery in Dubai showcased how she uses her material and how she transforms the idea that we have about nature and human. Buyruk takes the detailed works and creates large scaled porcelain sculptures. "My main material is porcelain mud and I think as a material it has a great and strong character," said Buyruk.
In her "Habitat" exhibition, Buyruk once again uses porcelain to express how she sees and perceives nature. On the other hand, her show at Leila Heller Gallery manifests how an artist can use her material to express her ideas. Her detailed works are a proof of how she works to reflect her creative process.
"In my Habitat exhibition my aim was to focus on reproduction and the creation of new hybrid species. These species are not identified. They are like plants, animals, humans and maybe all of them at the same time," said Buyruk about her works.
What she aims first is to discover what the viewer sees within the porcelain ornaments. Even though the porcelain works give a certain impression, there is more to see in them. The artist loves to hide a figure among the ornament and adornments and lets the viewer to discover.
Buyruk is a master of porcelain, using the material as a canvas but still in a traditional way. Her large scaled works reveal hybrid flower forms, plants and animals. On one hand she uses the nature and natural world and, on the other, she creates a field for the viewer to...

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