Mehmet Ali Yildiz (1994) – Evil Twin

Mehmet Ali Yıldız was born in 1994 in Istanbul. He completed his undergraduate studies in the Painting Department of Marmara University’s Faculty of Fine Arts, where he is currently continuing his master’s degree. In recent years, his artistic practice has focused on organisms, interspecies communication, and process-based relationships. Working within the boundaries of his home, the artist engages with various organisms and produces works shaped by these ongoing interactions. These experiences also examine the political forms of communication between humans and other living beings.Through his methods of art-making, he aims to create spaces, conditions, and acts of selection. According to the artist, domestic and wild environments share similar ontologies, boundaries, and relationships—even within modern humans. For this reason, he predominantly produces surface-based works and seeks to expose his practice to processes of formation and transformation. He gathers his materials and representations as a result of these processes. Plants, fire, and natural environments are among the methods he frequently employs.The artist participates in both national and international projects and continues his artistic production in his home in Çekmeköy, Istanbul.