Mélanie Matranga b. 1985
Exhibitions
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Sylvie Fleury, Mélanie Matranga, Fern O' Carolan, Carissa Rodriguez
group show
Karma International, Weststrasse 70, Zürich, CH 12 Apr - 18 May 2024 Weststrasse 70, Zurich, CHOpening 11 April 6-8 PMRead more -
Ser Serpas, Melanie Matranga: The Uncanny House
group show
Casa di Goethe, Rome, IT
28 Mar - 1 Sep 2024 28 Mar - 1 Sep 2024 -
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THEY
group show curated by Stéphanie Moisdon
Le Consortium, Dijon, FR 27 Oct 2023 - 31 Mar 2024'The THEY exhibition seeks to create a diffracted image of youth – a community without community, thriving in a dissolved, uncertain world where referents move freely, unburdened by hierarchies, and...Read more -
Mélanie Matranga
Eveillée
Centre d'Art Contemporain / Passages, Troyes, Fr 29 Sep - 16 Dec 2023'Tu entres dans la maison, et, à gauche, tu peux plonger. D’abord dans la ouate inconfortable et obscure, ensuite, dans les vagues d’une côte sauvage. Les sons environnants révèlent néanmoins...Read more -
Mélanie Matranga
Notes
Opening Dec 15th, 6 - 8pm 15 Dec 2022 - 28 Jan 2023 Weststrasse 70, Zurich, CH -
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MOVE: Intimacy as Resistance, curated by Caroline Ferreira and Michal Novotný
National Gallery Prague, Prague, CZ 10 Jun - 9 Oct 2022National Gallery PragueRead more -
Mélanie Matranga
0,1,2,3,4
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, GB 22 May - 31 Oct 2021 -
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Poésie prolétaire, group show
Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, Paris, FR 15 Jan - 23 Feb 2019Une revue au croisement de la poésie et du dessin, sans pour autant émarger aux catégories de la poésie concrète ou graphique. Plutôt un endroit de rencontre inattendu, qui fait...Read more -
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curated by Camille Chenais
Villa Vassilieff, Paris, FR 21 Sep - 22 Dec 2018Avec cette exposition, au titre silencieux et imprononçable, Mélanie Matranga s’empare de la Villa Vassilieff, de son charme et de son aspect domestique pour y créer un microcosme d’objets, de...Read more -
Group show
10 Mar - 29 Apr 2017 Karma International, Zurich, CH -
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Feeling Myself 25 May - 20 Aug 2016 Karma International, Los Angeles, USA -
Group show
19 Dec 2015 - 20 Feb 2016 Karma International, Zurich, CH -
Mélanie Matranga
A perspective somehow 23 Jan - 2 Apr 2015 Karma International, Zurich, CH
Works
Overview
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.
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.
Biography
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.