Tiziana La Melia

Tiziana La Melia was born in 1982, in Palermo (IT), she lives and works in Vancouver (CA).

Tiziana La Melia is an interdisciplinary artist working in painting, installation, film and writing. To date, La Melia’s work has explored through painting, installation and writing, the relationship between proprioceptive experience and the way that thought becomes form; language digresses; things become subjects, subjects become things; hyphens, metonymy, stutters, and slime form a mutating and nonlinear poetics. Her work is populated by angelfish, losers, dropouts, and spinsters—who are preoccupied by fate, weather, health, time, food, perfume, writing, technology and pets. The characters in the work evoke an agency that is both fixed and malleable. Titles and form evoke theatrical structures to navigate the slippage between objects and language, plotting to blur the dialectic between the utilitarian and the lyrical.

Tiziana La Melia’s work has been exhibited, screened and performed in Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, Stockholm, Nevers, Montreal, and Vancouver. Her writing has appeared in C Magazine, The Organism for Poetic Research, Pyramid Power, The Capilano Review and Poetry is Dead. Forthcoming activities include a solo exhibition at 8-11 (Toronto) and Anne Barrault (Paris). La Melia was awarded the 2014 RBC Painting Prize. In 2017 a book of poetry will be published by Talon Books, Vancouver.