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Leila Heller Gallery is pleased to present Melis Buyruk’s debut in New York, with the solo show “Habitat: Bloom” on view from July 21st to September 2nd, 2022.

The exhibition showcases seventeen porcelain works by Buyruk, where a ceramic topography of intricate flora and fauna are encased in wooden boxes, and granted their own habitat. In a mastery of porcelain, the traditionally feminized and overlooked art form associated with domestic life is reinterpreted as a medium that points to bio-futurist tensions.

Marking Buyruk’s first exhibition in New York, “Habitat: Bloom” presents the first …