At the Wedding Circle, Chippendale
• ▫︎ melletios kyriakidis ▾
▻ ▹ ‣▷ he/him
Melletios Kyriakidis is a contemporary artist based on unceded, Gadigal Country. Since the mid 90's Melletios has exhibited extensively, including shows in London, Beijing, Rome, Hamburg, Melbourne and Sydney. He now displays his work on Large scale Architectural facades, on iconic buildings like the Sydney Opera House.
Melletios Kyriakidis' interdisciplinary work is grounded in the profound consequences of identity and exploration of the political body, immersed in intergenerational, diasporic trauma. It draws on the premise of the disassociated state of Flux and the effects of post-colonial structures.
Expounding on Structuralism, Melletios' work is part performative, part situational, adopting a transdisciplinary framework for his aesthetic. He rejects the contrived legacy, the decorative by-product of the institutional hierarchy.
Presently he is collaborating with others to produce work that involves discourse concerning the frenzied state of affairs that has encompassed the conservative identity of the contemporary epoch.
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Photo documentation and the performance of 'Thrills and Spills', with James Gulliver Hancock, 2011.