Melike Kara: Den Teppich schüttelnd, 2016, oil stick and acrylic on canvas, stained glas, ink and oil stick on glas, dimensions variable, MÉLANGE 2016. Photo: Thomas Koester
Melike Kara: Den Teppich schüttelnd, 2016, oil stick and acrylic on canvas, stained glas, ink and oil stick on glas, dimensions variable, MÉLANGE 2016. Photo: Thomas Koester
Jessica Gispert & Melike Kara, installation view, MÉLANGE 2016. Photo: Thomas Koester
Jessica Gispert & Melike Kara, installation view, MÉLANGE 2016. Photo: Thomas Koester
Jessica Gispert & Melike Kara, installation view, MÉLANGE 2016. Photo: Thomas Koester
Melike Kara: Den Teppich schüttelnd (zwei), 2016, oil stik and acrylic on linen, 280 x 130 cm, MÉLANGE 2016. Photo: Thomas Koester
Melike Kara: Den Teppich schüttelnd (zwei), 2016, oil stik and acrylic on linen, 280 x 130 cm, MÉLANGE 2016. Photo: Thomas Koester
Jessica Gispert: You're the great talker of love, said he who lost my tongue, 2016, foam, pantyhose, powdered sugar, pigment, dimensions variable, MÉLANGE 2016. Photo: Thomas Koester
Jessica Gispert: So Lege, 2016, bath salt crystals & acrylic medium on digital print, 84 x 119 cm, MÉLANGE 2016. Photo: Thomas Koester
Jessica Gispert: So Lege, 2016, bath salt crystals & acrylic medium on digital print, 84 x 119 cm, MÉLANGE 2016. Photo: Thomas Koester
Jessica Gispert: You're the great talker of love, said he who lost my tongue, 2016, foam, pantyhose, powdered sugar, pigment, dimensions variable, MÉLANGE 2016. Photo: Thomas Koester
Jessica Gispert: You're the great talker of love, said he who lost my tongue, 2016, foam, pantyhose, powdered sugar, pigment, dimensions variable, MÉLANGE 2016. Photo: Thomas Koester
Jessica Gispert: You're the great talker of love, said he who lost my tongue, 2016, foam, pantyhose, powdered sugar, pigment, dimensions variable, MÉLANGE 2016. Photo: Thomas Koester
MÉLANGE is proud to present
“Honey: Bread & Butter”
with Jessica Gispert & Melike Kara
at Komplot, Brussels
Jessica Gispert (b. 1984 in Miami; Düsseldorf) and Melike Kara (b. 1985 in Bensberg; Cologne) both refer to the body as subject- they speak of seduction and meet each other in attrition. Originally, the idiom “bread and butter” relates to something providing livelihood, like your income on a regular basis, whereas this time it might speak of specific needs and greeds to be nourished.
Jessica Gispert uses cloud-like construction foam reminiscent of whipped cream or body fat combined with body shaping under garments that are meant to constrain the body but also provide support, leaving it open when the process of ‘forming’ turns into deforming.
Melike Kara’s site specific intervention joins the window of Komplot with traces of mythology. Through a layered composition the window becomes a hermetic display box.