If Inès Mélia’s work is so fascinating, it is as a result of the artist has the power to create with the banality of everyday life. Discarded books are reworked into poetic tissue bins, whereas cheese is reworked into astonishing ceramic candleholders. The domestic universe evokes her – a muse with which she has fun however all the time with rigor.
It's with this lightness that she begins the autumn of 2022, inaugurating her first solo exhibition, “Ne me retiens pas,” on the 75 Faubourg Gallery. Accompanied by the curator Jérôme Sans, the young artist continues her research on the world of intimacy and links each of her works to the word – this sequence of letters which, when united, takes on a which means, typically resulting in error or ambiguity.
The artistic lady thus finds the help that is pricey to her. The ebook particularly. Superimposed, it turns into a totem in the Ettore Sottsass type. The sides are united and the titles are aligned to create an beautiful frame of phrases. On the ground, literary works are encircled, exposing a double which means expression, drawn by the artist.
Inès Mélia additionally returns to painting with larger-scale canvases. Pages from the novel La Prisonnière by Marcel Proust are marouflaged, forming a grid, then superimposed to provide free and colourful types, imagined by the artist. A foot of nose to the story, to the confined heroine.
For Inès Mélia, the word is sculpture. On a ebook, in totem or painting, or inscribed on a linear statue of eggs, it takes shape and is reworked within the eyes of each. With “Ne me retiens pas,” the artist frees the phrase from its leaf, with accuracy and malice.
“Don’t maintain me again” – 75 Faubourg Gallery
75, rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré, Paris 8e From September 9 to October 7, 2022
Louise Conesa
L’article « NE ME RETIENS PAS », THE FIRST SOLO SHOW OF INÈS MÉLIA est apparu en premier sur Galerie Joseph.
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