{"title":"Matilde Melodia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMA Fine Art, Edinburgh College of Art, 2026\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2026 Emerging Art Prize Nominee. RSA John Kinross Award 2026 recipient. Matilde Melodia is an artist-researcher and facilitator working across photography, collage, performance, and participatory practice. Her work explores the body as a site of experience, memory, and communication, particularly in relation to trauma, movement, and non-verbal forms of expression. Using her own body as both subject and material, she investigates how gesture, fragmentation, and reconstruction can reveal what is difficult to articulate through language alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy practice began as a way of understanding how experience is carried through the body – through gesture, movement, and reaction, even when words feel insufficient. Working across photography, collage, and performance, I use fragmentation and reconstruction to explore memory, trauma, and the traces of lived experience. Through dialogue, workshops, and collective making, I create spaces where uncertainty, difference, and exchange can coexist. I hope my work encourages viewers to slow down, look closely, and reflect on the ways our bodies hold, communicate, and transform experience.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1054\/0135\/2524\/collections\/Matilde_77d2bcda9ab3d127201b1d3a69e74d4f.webp?v=1783589336","url":"https:\/\/www.newbloodart.com\/collections\/matilde-melodia.oembed","provider":"New Blood Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}