Melis Gürsel, originally a graduate engineer, shared with her enthusiasts how she reconciled her identity as a painter and her identity as an engineer in the same body and the relational bond she established between her art and her engineering profession, despite the fact that she did not receive any education in painting.

AN ENVIRONMENTALLY CONSCIOUS ENGINEER AND ARTIST WHO CARES ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY

Melis Gürsel stated that as an engineer, she has shifted her work to the fields of sustainability and energy efficiency and that she uses sustainable, environmentally sensitive materials in her works created as an artist, while also drawing attention to global climate change.

“WHEN I TOUCHED THE CLAY, I FELT AS IF I HAD DONE THIS CENTURIES AGO.”

Melis Gürsel, who describes the feeling that sculpting gives her as “like shaping a life from scratch”, told Eylül Aşkın how she met clay and sculpture as well as her interest in painting.

“ART LOVERS SHOULD EXPECT THEMSELVES FROM MY “FLAW” EXHIBITION.”

Pointing out that people generally tend to look for flaws in others and that very few of us look at ourselves, the artist said, “I don’t have a sales target. I look at who bought which work. I think about my state of mind when I was making that work and identify it with the person who bought it.”

Melis Gürsel’s painting and sculpture exhibition titled “Flaw”, which will confront us with our flaws, can be visited at Evrim Art Gallery until March 1.