Melina Wilson (°1990, Geneva, Switzerland) is an artist who works in a variety of media. By using an ever-growing archive of found documents to create autonomous artworks, Wilson makes work that generates diverse meanings. Associations and meanings collide. Space becomes time and language becomes image.
Her artworks are an investigation into representations of (seemingly) concrete ages and situations as well as depictions and ideas that can only be realized in art. With Plato’s allegory of the cave in mind, she reflects on the closely related subjects of archive and memory. This often results in an examination of both the human need for ‘conclusive’ stories and the question whether anecdotes ‘fictionalise’ history.
Her works are an investigation of concepts such as authenticity and objectivity by using an encyclopaedic approach and quasi-scientific precision and by referencing documentaries, ‘fact-fiction’ and popular scientific equivalents. By studying sign processes, signification and communication, she makes work that deals with the documentation of events and the question of how they can be presented. The work tries to express this with the help of physics and technology, but not by telling a story or creating a metaphor.
Her works question the conditions of appearance of an image in the context of contemporary visual culture in which images, representations and ideas normally function. Melina Wilson currently lives and works in Vevey.
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