Matilde Melodia

I am an artist-researcher and facilitator working across photography, collage, performance, and participatory practice. My work explores the body as a site of memory, experience, and communication, particularly in relation to trauma and non-verbal expression. My practice began as a way of understanding how experience is carried physically through gesture, reaction, and movement. Influenced by The Body Keeps the Score, I became interested in how the body can hold forms of truth when memory or language feel uncertain. I work with fragmentation and reconstruction as methods for approaching what is difficult to articulate verbally. Through photography, collage, and performance, I explore how experience shapes perception and relation. My methodology combines embodied research, image-making, and relational practices grounded in dialogue and collaboration. Workshops, facilitation, and collective making are an important part of my practice. I am interested in creating spaces that can hold uncertainty, conflict, and differing perspectives without immediately resolving them. Influenced by the body's ability to adapt and respond to changing circumstances, I approach both practice and facilitation as open processes that develop through conversation, collaboration, and exchange.