Nicholas Mellefont

Wall-Space

October 4th – 21st, 2023

Nicholas Mellefont’s art is site generated. His work consists of two gestures that act together as the engine for the work. One, an architectural intervention and two, a painted projection. Through a receptive encounter with the site, Mellefont selects a particular characteristic of the space and constructs it of materials in keep with those found onsite. He then projects a shape found on site, back onto the site – over the new architectural configuration, affixing the projection in paint. The result simultaneously highlights the visual and tactile, engaging a range of sensorial experience that is active within the encounter of place. These two actions work together towards extending, diverting, establishing, making visible and intensifying relations within the site and opening questions of appearance, experience and evaluation.

For this work, the dimensions of the doorway to the gallery space are made into a solid rectangle and affixed into the room, then the same dimensions are projected over the surface of the wall and object and painted black.