Matilde Melodia
Spelling Out
2025My practice positions the body as both subject and medium, treating it as a visual language. Through shifting positions, it expresses what is often unspoken or pre-verbal, revealing how the body registers impact, tension, and conflict.
Matilde Melodia
Performace in Collaboration
with artsit Freya Glass and curator Rosie Hodgson Smith
Held down by the wind
2025
"Working with Freya became a shared process of play, intuition, and experimentation. The body functioned as a responsive medium – through folding, stretching, bending, and repositioning, mirroring Freya’s own process of repetitive reshaping. What emerged was a dialogue between our practices: a continual back-and-forth in which body and material co-constructed and reacted to one another."
Matilde Melodia
Where Do I Begin Again?
2025, oil pastels and printed paper collage, 29.7 x 42 cm each
Crossing Point Exhibition,
Edunburgh College of Art, 2026.
Collage becomes a process of removal and reassembly, where the body shifts context and meaning. The work explores transformation and colour as a form of renewal, asking what new structures can emerge through rupture and the ongoing process of figuring things out.
Matilde Melodia
Body Font
2026Body Font is a digital typeface created from photographs of my body. Through abstract poses that loosely resemble letters, the body becomes a tool for writing. The resulting language resists readability, reflecting how experience and trauma can be held in the body when words fail, turning typing into a physical gesture rather than a readable outcome.
Matilde Melodia
Invisible Structure
Performance
2025
In Invisible Structure, I wear an intentionally awkward costume that exaggerates the effort of simple actions. The body moves within this restrictive form, revealing how invisible structures—psychological, social, or emotional—shape physical behaviour. Presented during The Space Between exhibition, the performance turns the body into a moving sculptural object, emphasising tension between movement, constraint, and adaptation.
Matilde Melodia
Stages of Becoming,
Binded prints,
14.5 x 25.5 cm,
2025
Matilde Melodia
Stages of Becoming,
Binded prints,
14.5 x 25.5 cm,
2025
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Puzzled
Print on Found Object
2026
Matilde Melodia,
Stretch Break with Body to Body Mat,
acrylic on found fabric,
2026
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Can’t Feel my Body,
paper collage,
2026
Matilde Melodia
Narrative Reclamation
Animation
2025
I revisited a found object titled Man on Fire, an old-fashioned masculine book, by projecting and painting movements of my own body onto its pages. I filmed the shadow of my body moving in my bedroom, a private space where movement became a way of processing and reconnecting with myself, then transferred these gestures using brush and ink across the book. The silhouette moves through and interrupts the original narrative, reclaiming it through presence and bodily movement.
Matilde Melodia
Body’s Narrative
Collaborative Performace
2025
The Narrative Reclamation later developed into a collaborative performance exploring identity, embodiment, and collective experience. I wanted to create an immersive environment where bodies could merge and respond to one another. Two dancers performed behind a screen so that their shadows blended with the projected animation, blurring distinctions between physical and projected bodies. Sound artist Selenay Tektunal composed the soundscape, adding another sensory layer shaped through rhythm and bodily response.
Matilde Melodia
The Line and Body
animation
2025
A moving image of the body is partially removed and reconstructed with a simple drawn line. The work explores fragmentation and repair, where the body is reimagined through instinctive mark-making. What returns is tentative and incomplete, suggesting a form still in the process of becoming.