VCA ART 2022

Damien Melchiori

Master of Fine Art

My practice is informed by a longstanding interest in productive tensions produced through opposing forces—such as noise and silence, order and disorder, or authorship and originality. These tensions are not understood as simple binaries or dichotomies but rather as complex, multifaceted and multidirectional forces in the broader cultural landscape. In considering opposing forces as integrated parts of ongoing cycles of change, my practice seeks to identify moments of rupture caused by conflict and excess that implicate a sense of uncertainty.

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Damien Melchiori, Creative Destruction (excerpt), 2022, 4 minutes 36 seconds, audio.
Damien Melchiori, Creative Destruction (installation view), dimensions variable, 2022. Documentation by Simon Strong. EB Myer Room, Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne.
Damien Melchiori, Creative Destruction (installation view), dimensions variable, 2022. Documentation by Simon Strong. EB Myer Room, Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne.
Damien Melchiori, Creative Destruction (installation view), dimensions variable, 2022. Documentation by Simon Strong. EB Myer Room, Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne.
Damien Melchiori, Untitled (The Restless Years), found book, hole made with 12-gauge shotgun, 30 x 45 x 10 cm, 2022. Documentation by Simon Strong.
Damien Melchiori, Creative Destruction (installation view), dimensions variable, 2022. Documentation by Simon Strong. EB Myer Room, Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne.

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