Exhibition
Felix Melia: Public Displays of Affection *In The Waiting Room
27 May 2017 – 24 Jun 2017
Event times
PV Saturday 27 May, 6 - 9pm
28 May - 24 June 2017, Sat - Sun, 12 - 6pm
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- Studio 61
- Rollins Street
- London
- SE15 1EP
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- New Cross Gate, Queens Road Peckham
Jupiter Woods extends an invitation to 'Public Displays of Affection *In The Waiting Room' a new sound and video installation by Felix Melia.
About
This work is produced and presented across two venues simultaneously: Jupiter Woods in London and Cordova in Vienna.
The show centers on a dialogue depicting the dissolution of a long distance relationship. It explores inherited cultural behaviors and the prescriptive narratives engendered within the environments we move through and around, and their impact on the ability of the individual to express and communicate. The architectures of the two galleries – both of which also function as domestic spaces – become the embodiments of physical and psychological distance as the conversation intensifies and the pressure of language builds around strained efforts at being ‘true to oneself’.
In the apparent absence of a body to receive them, words hang in the air, waiting for a response. The gaps are filled with more disembodied voices, their words spoken and sometimes sung – a version of ‘All of Me’ – a song about romantic devotion, the lyrics of which describe violent, physical undoing – resonates throughout both galleries. When the body is made inaccessible, obscured by representations, and images have supplanted the expression of some deeper emotional self, that self is set adrift, impossible to quantify, identify, or express in isolation. Instead, it is dispersed amongst the objects, surfaces and spaces it inhabits.
The exhibition is kindly supported by Arts Council England.