Away

Mélissa Biondo lives and works in Geneva. Her re- search falls within the fields of identity, performance and entertainment. She has a certain interest in identities and singular behaviors and more broadly, for the systems of identity production and the power dynamics specific to them. Collective and individual apprehension of reality, alienation and depersonalization are notions which are at the core of her work. Through the symbolism of image becoming, her work consists of creating non-places in which to incarnate and narrate oneself differently. She explores notions specific to the image field such as surface and void which are then fetishized and pushed to a certain extreme. Inspired by internet culture and video games, Mélissa Biondo offers her audience an experience in which tension and attention become materials and a field of experimentation and are the subject of particular care on the duration. Playing with as well as questioning and pushing back the codes and expectations linked to the medium of performance. Deliberately creating void to invite the other to project.There are different ways of embodying a body in the different spaces, times and contexts that it occupies and crosses and which conversely occupies and crosses it. To become a projection surface, to take a place or to invite the other to incarnate and project themselves onto/into yourself, as well as into a specific place within yourself. Can we decide to incarnate as an image, mood, state or object ? Moving within physical and symbolic spaces, internal or external to oneself ? Shift constantly ? Objective oneself to better regain control over one’s body?