Sila Candansayar, shows us a unique perspective on ”bodiness’, one in which mutant and artificial elements form part of organic corporeality. Her notion of ’category mistakes’ is the underlying principle that guides her multimedia installations, formal syntax, and representational ambiguity. A vocabulary of shapes that are informed by her visual interests in physics, geometry, anatomy and mathematics: a sensibility partially informed by her father’s medical practice as a neuropsychiatric professor in Ankara, Turkey. Plato’s theory of the Platonic solids, with the five polyhedra and each one’s corresponding element in nature has been a fundamental reference in the evolution of her artistic language. The works’ dynamic methods of display and presentation also highlight the importance of the viewer’s experiential role. An invitation to a multiplicity of ways of seeing.

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Sila Candansayar (b. Ankara, 1997), Paris-based Turkish artist, graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure desBeaux-Arts de Paris in 2025. Recent solo exhibitions feature: Liber Pulveris, with Charlotte Simonnet (Galerie du Crous de Paris, París, 2025); Tenders (Cabinet Studiolo, Milán, 2023). Recent group shows include: My Way: Sturtevant , Chris Burden, Sila Candansayar, Jimmie Durham, Latifa Echakhch, Michel Journiac, Jannis Kounellis, Philippe Meste, Gianni Motti, Cléo Perrin, Raymond Pettibon, Julien Previeux, Charlotte Simonnet, Internationale Situationniste, Lawrence Weiner (Galerie Michel Rein, París, 2026), Coller l’oreille aux colimacons (Les Réserves, Frac Ile-de-France, París, 2024); Sur le feu (Palais des Beaux-Arts, París, 2023). She is one of the four winners of the 2025 Diptyque Support and Launch Grants. In addition, Candansayar is also one of the three winners of the Mennour Emergence #3 programme.