Tiziana
La Melia
Books + Selected Writing
Exhibitions
Fly Robin, Fly, Patrons of the South, Montpellier-Sete March 25 - June 6, 2021
Fly Robin, Fly
a group show curated by Nils Alix-Tabeling
Melissa Airaudi
Nils Alix-Tabeling
Mark Barker
Vanessa Disler
Justin Fitzpatrick
Namio Harukawa
Tiziana La Melia
Marie Lassnig
Marie Legros
Laure Mathieu-Hanen
Tai Shani
Kengné Téguia
Alison Yip
text by Julie Ackerman
Thank you to Marine Lang and Mécènes du Sud and the B.C. Arts Council
photo documentation by Elise Ortiou-Campion
Kletic Kink was first developed as a sound piece commissioned by Nils Alix-Tabeling for the exhibition Fly Robin Fly at Mécènes
du Sud and is situated within Alison Yip’s
'House of Sobbing Orchids' — a grotesque style wall painting made on-site, with one panel featuring vignettes translated into pigment by Yip. The room is furnished with pieces by Nils Alix-Tabeling that include aromatic herbal stuffed cushions, a drawing by Namio Harukawa and a sound piece by Tiziana La Melia.
Kletic Kink refers to the kletic hymn, a poetic song of praise, prayer or plea that appears in Greek Tragedies, addressed to either a deity or to “non-divine” beings, such as mortals, creatures from the animal kingdom or elements of the natural world. An example of such a hymn is Sappho’s devotional love poem “Hymn to Aphrodite,” an intimate plea and dialogue. “Kink” here refers to material ruin spiritual (bypassing) or “mend-narrative” kinks.