Artist Statement
Through ceramics, painting, and drawing, Yaren Yildiz’s work explores the body as sensation, visceral, tactile, and in flux. Her hand-built ceramic sculptures, shaped through layered coils and slabs, emerge as internal states without external lines. They recall organs, fragments, or living creatures, forms that resist logical structure yet pulse with their own biological rhythm. Yildiz approaches clay as a sentient material, a kind of biological hardware that stores touch and emotion. Each layer holds memory: pressing, stretching, merging until the surface becomes a record of movement and tension. The clay’s sensitivity turns it into a skin fragile, porous, and alive. Her works inhabit the threshold between becoming and disintegration, where touch replaces vision as the primary sense. Through this process, Yildiz seeks to translate the invisible pressures of being those internal sensations that live beneath the surface into form.