Gundega Melberga

collage - lichaam

I mostly work in hand-cut paper collage and photo montage mediums. The subject matter of my work is body, identity, and embodied knowledge. I am interested in one's mundane, fleshy, and intimate encounters with the external world that often go unnoticed but play a crucial role in meaning-making and in shaping one's identity.

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    • Preparations for Being Together in an Unknown Period of Time. Graduation Presentation 2021

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 08-10-2021 t/m 08-10-2022
    • In samenwerking met: Piet Zwart Institute, Master Education in Arts
    • Locatie: online, Rotterdam
    • The material on the website represents elements of individual research by students from the Master of Education in Arts, class of 2021. My contribution INTIMATE MUSEUM is on an attempt to develop an approach to teaching in which listening is an educational act and one's experiencing body becomes a tool for learning. I am taking the viewer on a journey to intimate, embodied learning spaces that emerge within one upon encounters and intra-actions with other bodies – material and non-material.
    • https://meia-graduation2021.pzwart.nl/

    I AM THE SEA AT NIGHT collage series

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 22-03-2022 t/m 30-04-2022
    • Locatie: Hopper Coffee, Schiedamse Vest 146, 3011 BG, Rotterdam
    • In the series I'm addressing the embodied ways of knowing - how we experience and make sense of the world and ourselves with and through our bodies. Series stemmed from the research on embodied and somatic learning and meaning-making I did at Piet Zwart Institute of the WDKA during my Master's. In the series I'm further exploring the relationship between body and space – how an individual materializes within the relationship with the other.
    • https://gundegamelberga.squarespace.com/works