Working in drawing, painting and installation Melina Doumy (b. 1996, Athens, Greece) explores the physicality of heightened states of emotion mediated

through ideas of personal exorcism and catharsis. Located within the myth-making narrative of her Mediterranean upbringing, her work is an outpouring of memories and fragmented visions, toying between abstraction and figuration. With a concern towards materiality and light her practice is rooted in drawing, often using literature, theatre and dance as a source.

Doumy encounters the figure as a site of transformation, an attitude echoed in her process. Depending on the physicality of the material, she works impulsively and allows for the image to remain in a state of flux, adhering to emotions and impulses until it finds its place. In her latest works, Doumy is grappling with the difficulty of visually representing ambiguous and introspective experiences and emotions. In these drawings, chaotic and frenzied transformations take place in ambiguous landscapes, conveying existential concepts or interpretations of the sublime. Doumy currently lives and works in London.