For the second chapter of our participation in Salon Amsterdam––an initiative by a group of Amsterdam galleries presenting archival work for four weeks across the city––we present a combination of former and new work by Kubilay Mert Ural.
In his performance, Mert Ural will carry out a guitar performance following ambient and shoegaze traditions. The session will focus on atmosphere and layering rather than traditional song structures, with melodies emerging in response to imagined cinematic moods.
Kubilay Mert Ural’s practice threads painting, sculpture, video, and performance around a highly imaginative stream of consciousness that populates dreamworlds with an array of fascinating characters. His paintings depart from a mental drift, daydreams, visual noise, and familiar images that slowly lose their stability and coherence. He works instinctively, allowing abstraction and figuration to interrupt, collide, and coexist rather than resolve. Humour, tension, and discomfort sit altogether across his work.
