Melanie Christine Amengual

Born 1994, Marseille, France.
Lives and works in London, United-Kingdom.

Melanie’s work stems from a fascination for semiotics and textures. She derives inspiration from the origin of words, leading to an exploration into the multitude of meanings and contexts that a word can hold, using etymology, image or word assimilations, oxymorons and assonances. Through her video-performances, sculptural work, installations and drawings, she crafts a collection of both visual and audiovisual artefacts that allude to our relationship to the object, the meaning and the use we assign to it, occasionally employing détournement; the art of manipulating something that has already be done. It is the desacralisation of something to give birth to something else.

Our understanding of the world relies a lot on dichotomies; we naturally judge, classify and discriminate. What stains, what is impure or corrupted causes visceral responses such as anxiety, fear, disgust and fascination. Strongly attached to this matter and involving both personal experiences as well as public issues, Melanie’s body of work focuses on the notions of domesticity, intimacy, the body, and dirt being matter out of place, obsessively avoided or discarded.
With her pract...

BA(Hons) Fine Art - University of the Arts London

BA(Hons) Applied Foreign Languages (Spe. Communication & Marketing). Aix-Marseille University

2021
‘Taking Shape’, Espacio Gallery, London, UK
‘The Ceiling With A Tranquil Eye’, 24 Cork Street, Mayfair, London, UK
‘Friday Screening’, hARTslane Gallery, London, UK
‘The Response’, Anticlone Gallery, London, UK

2020
'Elbow Room (online)', Twitch.com
‘Elbow Room’, South Kiosk, London, UK
‘Material / Alliances’, Copeland Gallery, London, UK

2019
‘In My Own Way’, Ignition Brewery, London, UK
‘Afterbath’, Wimbledon College of Arts, London, UK
‘Sand Pit’, 72 Red Lion Street, Holborn, London, UK
fivehundredthousands at Deptford Cinema, Deptford Cinema, London, UK
‘Everyday Forms’, Four Corners Gallery, London, UK