Skin 4 stands as a towering wooden monument reaching nine meters into the sky. The artist, Mehmet Ali Uysal, envisioned this giant clothespin as a symbol for how humanity pinches the fragile surface of our world. The name refers to the work 'pinching' the thin skin of the earth.
This work first appeared during Umeå's 2014 cultural year under a commission from the municipality and Balticgruppen. The structure utilizes spruce wood sourced from Martinsons in Bygdsiljum. Variants of the work exist in Liege, New York, Nicey-sur-Aire and Paris.
Mehmet Ali Uysal was born in 1976 in Mersin. After studies in Ankara and Bourges, he is currently active as a teacher at the institution for art and music in Ankara.
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Written by Nik Frost
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