About

Elif Uras (b. 1972), creates paintings and ceramic sculptures that explore the identity and status of women, set within the shifting and confusing paradigm of East-West cultural conflict. Her sculptures are made onsite at the İznik Foundation, the historical centre of ceramics in Turkey since the Ottoman Empire. Uras’ sculptures given anthropomorphic forms are, in her own words, “a way of subverting or secularizing this tradition” where the artist reverses an abstract language and lends new meanings to it.
Another important aspect of these works, beyond their appearances, is the fact that they …