To attempt to write about the work of Tiziana La Melia —an artist whose practice is largely founded on writing— is to risk throwing oneself into a form of art criticism equivalent to a “yaourt” singing performance.  In pausing on just a few words and concentrating on their rhythm, form, and emotion, one is able to attempt a transcription of the heart of the work.  We’ve all practiced singing in “yaourt” in the shower, an act which is, before anything else, an intuitive movement toward abstraction through which the precision of words and sense is no longer relevant.  Words become a sonorous material; they bounce about, pause on a melody, achieve fluidity and are then amalgamated.  Sense is no longer fixed, and we are left with the pleasure of flow.  Albeit a tad butchered, this genre of joyous reprisal is a far cry from literary criticism or the precious, rigorous analyses of art history.  Yet, it is precisely in this zone of subjective irresolution that Tiziana La Melia situates her artistic practice, in the spaces that generate relations between things, that bring forms and ideas into being prior to the clarifying act of definition.

Mercer Union, Toronto, November 28, 2014, to January 31, 2015

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