SNAPSHOT: momentous fragments

Uploaded by:	ginamelosi
Country:	United Kingdom
Website:	http://www.ginamelosi.com

Kicking off the new year with a bang and injecting London with a little much-needed sunshine, Gina Melosi takes residence in a disused shop in the East End with a striking collection of photographs and jewellery objects exploring the notion of memory. Shot whilst travelling in Costa Rica and Nicaragua at the cusp of the millennium and exhibited here for the first time, the images present the snapshot as a fine art object to reflect upon about our past histories.

The show, curated by the artist, will consist mainly of photography, but some new jewellery objects will also be on display. It will be presented as a multidisciplinary discussion of remembrance and rediscovery: of people, places, time, selves.

“Make Your Own Memory”: On the opening night viewers are invited to create their own object from shells and other found objects Gina Melosi collected whilst travelling in Central America to bring home as keepsakes.

Gina Melosi is an American artist and designer working in London. She received a BA in Fine Art Photography in 1998 and, most recently, an MA in Jewellery Design in 2009 from London Metropolitan University. Past exhibitions have incorporated photography, slide installations, jewellery, text and found objects. “As a photographer and jewellery designer I am interested in social behaviours and expressions - both private and public, individual and group, internal and external. I look for what goes on between the lines, what is not said - the pauses, the gestures, the subconscious.”