Pg Art Gallery presents “You are here”, the first solo show of Melis Buyruk, a ceramic artist, who uses ceramic as a medium of expression without denying the material’s intrinsic features, running from July 8 through July 30. Most of her artworks contain “plates”, one of the most common and functional forms made from ceramic. Artist, preserving its form as it is, turns this industrial object into an art form just by changing its context. Buyruk does this skilfully. Without renouncing plate’s very purpose “presenting” and taking refuge in ready-made, she rather creates her art openly in the realm of design. The main context of this show is therefore based on the interpretation of the act of presentation. The artist describes the relationship between presenting and beauty with the first examples that come to mind: lips, flowers and gold. She associates this approach with “ornament and

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