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ABOUT

Mia Melvær (Stavanger, Norway) is a visual artist and researcher based in Brussels, whose work often reference moments of fishing or searching for small fragments, kinder technologies, casting nets or networks and giving weight to something that might easily drift. The work is made using highly manual scanning and printing methods, such as wood block printing, carved sculptures and paintings with various tracing techniques. Additionally, as a ‘content member’ of the Brussels based organisation Constant, she facilitates open ended, collaborative, artistic research on the topics of what speculative, feminist and open source technologies could be. Her work occasionally also takes form as written texts, scenography or fortune teller dispensers.

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A recurring theme in the work is how our collective memory gets created through the material we collect and reference to in order to tell our stories. Whether the aim of collecting these fragments is to piece together something that has happened in the past, or that of a possible future. The use of obfuscation or slight chaos points the focus more towards the mass of a collective movement rather than displays that highlight individual narratives.

Mia graduated from Design Academy Eindhoven, and her work has been presented in ESC Graz, Bozar, Hönnunarmiðstöð Reykjavik, Kunsthalle Bern, BNA-BBOT Brussels and other. In addition to Constant, she also makes collaborative work through collective projects such as Mothers & Daughters — a lesbian* and trans* bar*, BAD (Brussels Almanack Dykes) and Just for the Record.

GET IN TOUCH

mia@constantvzw.org

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MIA MELVÆR