Pi Artworks announces the opening of its new Shoreditch gallery with Skin, a solo exhibition by Paris-based artist Mehmet Ali Uysal, presented in alignment with London Gallery Weekend.

Following thirteen years at 55 Eastcastle Street in Fitzrovia, the move marks a significant new phase for the gallery, expanding into a larger two-floor industrial building at Perseverance Works in East London. Defined by pitched ceilings, exposed steel trusses, and industrial windows, the new space reflects Pi Artworks’ focus on ambitious installation-based practices, interdisciplinary production, and expanded public programming.

Occupying the first floor of the building, Skin presents a new selection of works from Uysal’s internationally recognised series investigating architecture, perception, and the physical limits of built space.

Working across sculpture and site-responsive installation, Uysal approaches walls, floors, and urban structures as if they were living surfaces — stretched, compressed, pierced, displaced, or held under tension. Through minimal yet precise interventions, familiar architectural elements appear unstable, elastic, or physically responsive, subtly disrupting the viewer’s relationship to space.

Originally trained in architecture and urban planning before completing a PhD in sculpture, Uysal’s practice operates between structural logic and perceptual illusion. His works frequently emerge directly from the material and psychological conditions of their sites, transforming architecture into something bodily, vulnerable, and strangely animate.

“The wall is not only something that divides space,” Uysal has noted, “it is also a surface carrying memory, pressure, and traces of human presence.”

Large-scale iterations of the Skin series have been presented internationally through institutional exhibitions and public commissions across Europe, the United States, Mexico, Taiwan, Vietnam, and the UAE.