MELODY LU

‘In my work I investigate the relationship between objects and places trough the prism of time that inevitably runs out. Through the use of sculptures and videos, I try to perceived the shifting instant when our world collapse: What happend when you are experiencing this moment when something is about to disappear? How to deal with ghosts and things that remains? My reflections are based in particular on the works of writers and philosophers such as Mark Fischer, Ursula K. Leguin and philosophical video game designers, Anna Anthropy. It is about the end of a world but also a lot about how to deal with nostalgia. In my practice I am mainly working with CGI videos and for instance, I recently started to build a video game, trying to develop this idea of how one is ejected from a world (especially from online game) and how to deal with the fact that what you used to experience as your own reality has disappeared forever, and there is no way back.’

‘The challenge for me is to create bridges between what Stefano Gualeni calls the actual world and the virtual world, based on the principle that the two are interconnected and overlapped. According to him virtual worlds could be existential tools to deal with the instability of the present. Through the process of enrolling and de-rolling from the actual to the virtual world, we’ll might, also, be able to grasp something from the genesis and the collapse of a world. This might be a desperate attempt to avoid any loss and protect things from time but it surely ends up creating a guest house for memories.’

Selected group exhibitions include Space Invasion III, Fabienne Levy Gallery, Lausanne (2024); Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty, Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris (2024); Unprecedented Times, Fabienne Levy Gallery, Lausanne (2024); You think you do but you don’t, duo show with Paul Fritz, Lausanne (2024); DEVATAKOR, Musée Guimet, Paris (2023).