Melek Zeynep Bulut, born in Beyoğlu in 1989. Bulut is a Turkish multidisciplinary artist and designer based in London. Her work synthesises space, experimental architecture, behavioural sciences, and visual arts. She focuses on the complex interplay between material, experimental circulation fiction, and human consciousness, exploring and exhibiting how existence and subjectivity are shaped by space. Her practice employs a multilingual production technique, encompassing sculpture, installation, photography, performance, painting, and video art.
The dynamic relationship between design and art — distinct and ambiguous — has formed the central line of her work from the very beginning. In Melek's creations, the connections we establish with time, body, consciousness, society, and the abstract aspects of everyday life transform into objects and materials, continually reshaped as spaces and visual connections. This process represents both a new and ancient language of communication.
Melek's piece, titled 'Açık Yapıt' (Open Work), representing Turkey at the London Design Biennale 2023, won the Public Award, symbolising an ironic monument.
