MEHMET SALİH KANBER - MSK
The artist of engineered perception.
Following a quietly transformative experience, he turned to art and started working at the intersection of engineering, time, and material behavior. He creates engineered artworks that render overlooked beauty perceptible. Extending beyond traditional exhibition spaces, his practice enters urban environments, prompting unexpected pauses and renewed ways of seeing.
WHY HE CREATES - ARTIST STATEMENT
Having contributed, through engineering, to the construction of a hyper-accelerated and rational world, he seeks through his art to reclaim the slowness it has taken from us. His practice is driven by a persistent and unresolved main question:
THE CONTRADICTION
He works within engineering while maintaining an artistic practice, without abandoning either. Engineering accelerates time through efficiency and optimization, while art resists this pace, insisting on slowness and attention. The tension between a restless, forward-driven mind and the desire to slow down remains unresolved, and it is within this contradiction that his practice begins.
THE COMPLETION
Completion emerges through integration rather than resolution. The creative depth of the artist is sustained by an engineering infrastructure, while the remnants of engineering, 3D printing waste and discarded fragments, become artistic material. Engineering enables complexity and structure; art provides direction and meaning. The resulting works exist as hybrid forms, where technical precision and artistic intuition complete one another.
ARTWORKS
His works are often quiet constructions of perception, occasionally resonating with force, some addressing forms of beauty that fade with time or disappear through neglect, while others are conceived for long-term endurance and preservation. Each work exists as part of a growing system rather than as an isolated object. Its meaning emerges not from rarity alone, but from its position within an expanding body of work.
Stone Portraits | Translating Micro Beauty into Macro Scale (2025-)
Mediterranean sea stones, macro-photographed by MSK using self-developed techniques, reveal unseen details. The collector’s choice defines the work’s final presence through museum-grade archival printing. Each piece includes the original epoxy-protected stone with its story and signature, unique, irreversible, and shaped by time and choice.
MSK Stones | Belong to those who find them (2025-)
Placed within urban and everyday spaces, the stones, produced with the inclusion of filaments recycled from 3D printing waste, create quiet encounters where overlooked beauty emerges. Some contain NFC tags linking to a video, extending the experience beyond the object. Once found, the stones belong to their finders, who are invited to share the moment, allowing beauty and time to briefly surface and circulate. Location clues for the stones are documented on Instagram: @mehmetsalihkanber as an extension of the work.
Artwork on Stone Canvases | Re-Materializing a Lost Sea Stone by Recycling (2025)
Stone Canvases emerge from loss and transformation. MSK re-materializes a lost sea stone by recycling 3D-printing waste into filament, turning absence into form. Painted and framed as integral works, these stone canvases transform engineering waste into art, allowing the lost stone to persist through material translation.
Non-Hypsometric Stones | Colored not by Elevation but Imagination (2025-)
These works emerge from Stone Canvases through the deliberate disruption of elevation-based coloration prior to production. Each work is produced through an irreversible color process and epoxy-coated by MSK to achieve its final luminous finish. Every Non-Hypsometric Stone is unique and unrepeatable by design.
Stonalyzer V1 | Perceiving the Memory of Stones (2026-)
If a device could read a stone’s memory, what would it reveal, only violence and destruction, or also fragile moments of beauty? This work poses the question through a speculative apparatus, where images emerge without hierarchy.
EXHIBITION FORMATS
His works are encountered across multiple contexts rather than confined to a single exhibition format.
They operate within gallery spaces, public and urban environments, and digitally extended platforms, adapting to each setting while preserving their conceptual integrity. By moving between controlled exhibition spaces and everyday urban landscapes, the works create situations of unexpected attention. Physical encounters are often extended through digital layers, allowing the practice to exist simultaneously in specific locations and beyond them, independent of time and place.
Solo Exhibitions:
The First One — MSK Art Space, Antalya, Türkiye (January 2026)
CONNECT
For curatorial inquiries, collaborations, or meaningful conversations.
connect@mehmetsalihkanber.com
Workshop
Kırcami mah. avni tolunay cad. uysal evler alkış sit. 115/C Muratpaşa / Antalya / TURKIYE
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