Uzay Dogan is an interdisciplinary architect-artist and exhibition designer based in Berlin since 2022. His works raise formal questions on political narratives and personal histories, finding moments of humanity between grander narratives. He works with painting, installation, photography and writing.
Perspectives, Politics, Poetry
Can spatial imagery function as a storytelling tool? Perspectives centers on this question, presenting a world where shapes act upon a perspective grid. Their action and reaction, their presence and disappearance, their compliance and resistance, all unfold as narrative gestures. Perspectives opens a field of reflection: a space where viewers are invited to confront the contradictions between order and reality, between ideals and lived histories, and to consider how these tensions continue to shape our contemporary world.
Sweet Water Muslims is an ongoing archival and culinary project that explores the tensions between lived experiences in western Turkey and the expectations shaped by Eurocentric perspectives. Initiated in 2020 and taking clearer form following my move to Europe in 2022, the project weaves together personal memory, regional histories, and food practices to question how identity, taste, and belonging are mediated through distance and cultural perception.
Archives: Sweet Water Muslims
Traces
"Traces" is a representative effort, an architectural analogy and a performance. A body is directly imprinted onto the canvas at a 1:1 scale, producing flat, two-dimensional traces. This initial imprint is then reworked with paint, transforming it into a visual representation of the human form. This act of containment establishes a conceptual parallel to an architectural section, where the body is spatially defined and bounded within a framed surface through performance and reflection.
Surface Acts is an interdisciplinary material research project that explores how computational design principles can articulate aesthetic style. Combining digital processes with manual fabrication. Through material experimentation, it examines how computational tools can extend, rather than replace, the intuition of craftsmanship. Brushstrokes seeks to establish a dialogue between human expression and machine logic, highlighting the potential of digital design to engage with tactility, imperfection, and the poetics of making.
Surface Acts