Skin 2 — Mehmet Ali Uysal, Chaudfontaine
Mehmet Ali Uysal · 2010 · Parc de Hauster, Chaudfontaine, Belgium
Photo from the Street Art Utopia archive; photographer and capture date not recorded. Artwork: Mehmet Ali Uysal. Full photograph shown.
A wooden clothespin six metres tall seemed to pinch up a fold of lawn in the Parc de Hauster in Chaudfontaine, near Liège, as if the ground were skin. Turkish artist Mehmet Ali Uysal made Skin 2 in 2010 for the Festival des 5 Saisons, a sculpture trail in the town’s parks. Source Source Source Checked
Gone 2020 — the caption of a Flickr photo (uploaded 13 March 2021) says the work was replaced in 2020 by the “parasol des 5 saisons”, and the festival’s artists page lists Skin 2 among works that have since disappeared. The newest dated photo of it standing was taken on 24 April 2017 (camera date). Source Source Reported
💡 4 things to know
- A lawn treated as skinThe festival describes the work as pinching the top layer of the lawn and lifting it with a clothespin six metres high; La Libre wrote that it seemed to lift the lawn as if it were skin. Source Source Checked
- Part of a new festivalOn 28 September 2010 La Libre previewed the new Festival des cinq saisons in Chaudfontaine’s parks, due to open on 17 October 2010, and named Uysal’s clothespin among its sculptures. Source Reported
- Two sets of measurementsThe festival and La Libre give the clothespin a height of six metres; Uysal’s gallery, Pi Artworks, lists the work at 700 × 800 cm. We use the six metres given by the two sources from Chaudfontaine. Source Source Source Conflicting
- Replaced by a parasolA photographer’s Flickr caption says the clothespin was replaced in 2020 by the “parasol des 5 saisons”. Source Reported
📍 Where it is
Parc de Hauster, Chaudfontaine, near Liège, Belgium, on the festival’s sculpture trail. Source Source Checked
Opens a map search for the Parc de Hauster; the sources give no exact spot. A photographer’s caption says the clothespin was replaced in 2020.
🗓️ Sightings
- 201028 Sep
La Libre previews the new clothespin
- 201724 Apr
Flickr photo, still standing (camera date)
- 2020
Replaced by a parasol, per Flickr caption
Green stamps mark dated photographs; amber stamps mark records or reports; red stamps mark loss. Publication dates are not camera dates.
🗞️ In the sources
Le parc et ses drôles de sculptures
“Mehmet Ali Uysal (Turquie) a conçu une pince à linge de 6 m de haut”
English: “Mehmet Ali Uysal (Turkey) designed a clothespin 6 m high.”
✅ The facts
- Size
- Clothespin 6 m high (festival, La Libre); 700 × 800 cm (Pi Artworks) Source Source Source Conflicting
- Status
- Gone: replaced in 2020, according to a Flickr caption; the festival lists it among vanished works Source Source Reported
- Our photo
- From the Street Art Utopia archive; photographer and date not known to us Source Unconfirmed
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All sources & image credits
- festival5saisons.org: Artistes (Festival des 5 Saisons, in French)
- La Libre: Le parc et ses drôles de sculptures (28 September 2010, in French)
- Pi Artworks: Mehmet Ali Uysal, Skin 2, 2010
- Flickr (claudiusbinoche): photo taken 24 April 2017, uploaded 13 March 2021, all rights reserved
- Hero image: the photograph used in the Street Art Utopia post, photographer not recorded (WAU media #12863); the share image is a 16:9 version of it (WAU media #12864).
Last checked: 13 November 2026 · How we verify art