MELANIE GARLAND

"Ires and venires of an absurd machine inside in a laboratory�

The process of artistic production that was developed between 2007 to 2013, was the subject of memory and portrait at the time of specific individuals. My motivation for personal development and creative was related to these two major issues. Then I was focusing on sub topics such as genealogy and family history. There I found my research foundations in a family tree of Garland, which was developed by four generations. In particular I have been investigating obsessively, in genealogy, understood as the " ires and venires� that constitute the identity of a given family: The family Garland of Irish and English ancestry.

The history of origins, displacements, trips, dislocations, traumas and anecdotes they give form to the signs of the whole genealogical tree. Thus, the links that been developing in these years, they articulate visually the familiar history, the genealogy, across a process of joint of signs, to the obsessive character of the search of sense to the personal biography.

The unexpected joint (like the collage dadaĂ­sta) of signs that recount to a topic macro (the genealogy) but that delegate in the spectator the whole close friend's process.

The system of work that I have developed during five years of career, has consisted of constructing a reflection concerning the process itself of the development and formation of the artistic work, understanding it not as the quite decisive one, but rather as an evolutionary process, where the intention is the research, the test and mistake, the constant movement, shaping this way a logic of "something" indeterminate. This development of reflection is constructing a fictitious system for which I am generating works in full development, where finally the interest relapses into the process itself. It is because of it that the topic that I have been developing across last two years of career has been from the logic research, which I have called her "Ires and venires of an absurd machine inside in a laboratory". This logic is creating machines of recollections, of research, of a supposed understanding inside the workshop of work, in which I am arming connections and interconnections that are establishing the different displacements that I have developed across the research.