MICHAELA MELIÁN
FREDERIC D. w/ FUBBI KARLSSON
SALOME MACHAIDZE

14 November-20 December
opening on Saturday 14 November
from noon to six

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

We are pleased to present

Michaela Melián's A Trip to Eros, Frederic D's
Bernhard Elsing and Salome Machaidze's Trigger Tiger.

A Trip to Eros, a six part collage suite of c-prints with imagery primarily downloaded from the internet stands as an elegiac configuration of the love affair of French philosopher Peter Abelard (1079-1142) with French writer, scholar and abbess Héloïse (1101-1164).

Michaela Melián, A Trip to Eros, 2008

Bernhard Elsing, the maternal great-grandfather of Frederic D., produced a 700-page illustrated diary during the 1870 Franco-German war, excerpts of which have been re-arranged and mixed with new photographic material with a film-poster modus operandi. Some five variations will be shown in the gallery while several hundred will be posted in the streets of Berlin.

Frederic D. with Fubbi Karlsson, Siege, 2009

Trigger Tiger, is a 100 minute film. The synopsis reads:
“Some time in the future – Europe is devastated and turned into a large desert. Isaak Blake, 40, a scientist, leads the submarine expedition “East Mission”. Exploring the ruins of Alexandria in Egypt, Isaak captures a mysterious bird. Thus raising the doubts in Isaak and the borders between his dreams and real events become blurry. Soon he finds himself in the spiral of his memories. Lead by the voice of an unknown spirit, Isaak follows the bewildering plan, which takes his unforeseen end at the North Pole Icebergs”.

Salome Machaidze, Trigger Tiger, film still, 2006 

The exhibition was inspired by the way Michaela Melián, Frederic D. and Salome Machaidze project on the past and the future creating new spaces, real and imaginary, within which they deal with myth and history. The highly romanticized terrains of tragic love, war and the uncertain future of a continent are re-construed with a palpable predilection for the slippery nature of film, music and the world wide web.

Michaela Melián (*1956) lives in Munich and Hamburg. She has recently exhibited at the Lentos Museum, Linz, Ludlow 38,
New York, Karin Guenther, Hamburg, Cubitt, London and the ZKM, Karslruhe. She is a visiting professor at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg and a member of the band F.S.K.

Frederic D. (*1974) lives in Berlin. He is currently working on his new film Maria’s Bilder while his cult movie Miss Baghdad will be screened this coming January at the Museu da Imagem e do Som, Sao Paolo. Recent shows include No Solid Crystal, Remap2, Athens and Portraits Officiels, Nice and Fit, Berlin.

Fubbi Karlsson (*1975) is involved in electronic interfacing and prototyping in the visual and performing arts. Recent collaborations include Portraits Officiels at Nice and Fit (with Frederic D.), advising for the Dirk Bell show at the Schinkel Pavillion, and several projects with Canadian performer Peaches.

Salome Machaidze lives in Berlin and Tbilisi. Her work has been recently shown at Micky Schubert, Berlin, Studio Voltaire, London and Nice and Fit, Berlin.

For more information and visuals please contact the gallery
or Helena Papadopoulos at +49 172 313 7252 and helena@niceandfitgallery.com