The product of artistic research, montage, and reproduction processes, Michaela Melián’s works involve a complex, transmedia layering of image, sound, and text. Red Threads, which is published in conjunction with the identically titled survey exhibition on Melián at the KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art in Berlin, focuses on Tamara Bunke and follows the trajectory of her life as it switches between the GDR and South America. Starting from the guerrillera who went under the nom de guerre Tania, a network of “red threads” unfolds, leitmotifs that cover a wide range of themes that include canonization, the Neues Wohnen movement, political theatre, gender norms, and a sense of home. Melián’s drawings, stamps, overlays, sewn pieces, weavings, and musical compositions provide unexpected contextualization for themes that are politically and socially volatile.
Michaela Melián, b. 1956, is an artist and musician living in Upper Bavaria and Hamburg. She co-founded the band F.S.K. and has taught at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg (HfbK) since 2010.
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Red Threads [en]
Red Threads [en]
Kathrin Becker/Ingrid Wagner/Michaela Melián
148 pp.
with numerous black and white and colour illustrations
threadsewn softcover
Leipzig April, 2023
ISBN: 9783959056403
Edition Number: 1
Width: 16 cm
Length: 23 cm
Language(s): English
Editor
Kathrin Becker, Ingrid Wagner
Author
Michaela Melián
Designer
Anna Lena von Helldorff
