Upcoming Exhibition
Melanie Matranga
dates to be announced
Office Baroque, Antwerp
With People, Office Baroque is pleased to announce its first exhibition of French artist Melanie Matranga.
People extends the fictional ambivalence seen in Mélanie Matranga’s first films (From A to B through E, 2014 and You, 2016) and explores the degrees of contamination from one to another, by following the multiple living conditions of these characters playing their own roles in front of the camera evoking illness, hypochondria, sexuality, motherhood, the precariousness of the art world, and the paradoxical enjoyment which results from it. Matranga shapes the outlines of a theorem of which People would finally be the first hypothesis.
I’m a private person, I’m a public mind evokes the obsession with language and the migration of speech proposing the investigation of existing and imaginary simultaneous relationships of the private and public emergencies through an analysis of the lexicon of attraction and intimate strategies.
Organised with the support of Vlaamse Gemeenschap.
About Melanie Matranga
Mélanie Matranga (b. 1985 in Marseille, France) lives and works in Paris. Her all-encompassing installations and tactile sculptures can be read as “emotional structures” that invite the viewers to fully immerse themselves.
Her sculptures draw from architecture, design, kink culture and often involve the music the artist likes to listen to in her studio. Her installations create moods, invitations to linger and touch, even to hang out. Through instagram quotes, smokers’ lounges and t-shirts tied using BDSM shibari techniques, Matranga often refers to different aspects of youth culture and their signifiers. Her videos are loosely scripted narrations starring her Parisian artist friends, seemingly allowing the viewer a glimpse into a typically insular circle and its underlying social codes, without ever shattering their enigmatic aura.
Matranga has had solo shows at Palais de Tokyo, and Villa Vassilieff in Paris and at Studio Indipendenza in Rome, amongst others. She’s shown at Astrup Fearnley museum, Oslo, LUMA foundation, Zurich and Dortmunder Kunstverein.