ABOUT MÉLISSA MARILLER

Mélissa Mariller moves furniture, household objects, utensils, tools, she projects them into environments for which they were not designed. She extracts them from the house, from the warmth of the home, from their environment very often marked by a social, vernacular or artisanal dimension then introduces them into the sphere of contemporary art, paying particular attention to the aesthetic and functional markers which determine. 


The movement that she makes is not only geographical - from the family living room to the art gallery - she is not content to move them from one space to another, to shift them, but this movement is accompanied by an intervention on the very materiality of the object, it de-domesticates it in a way, or rather it only retains from its first use what characterizes it: a flourish, a cultural marker, a technical assemblage. It removes the object from its original context, and frees it from what contributes to over-identifying its original environment, its parentage. It relieves it of the attributes which maintain it and condemn it to remaining simply domestic, functional, drudgery. Passing through the exhibition space allows the object to gain recognition from the public. Its last journey will be that made by the visitor, the collector, when the object once again inhabits a house.


Mélissa works with different materials and different people. She sculpts silhouettes and contours, uses solder or silicone as a drawing or assembly tool. There is no scale of value in the materials chosen, she selects them as much for their pattern, their color as their technical quality.