Delta van Melle (NL), is a visual artist, based in Antwerp.
For their paintings with sculptural qualities, Delta works with repurposed and found materials. Combining glass, wall paints, and childish drawings, they create a space for seriousness on one hand but always for playfulness. van Melle approaches their work with naivety - very intuitively and physically - finger painting, scribbling and experimenting with all kinds of materials as they go. one of wich is a waste material from kombucha brewing in their herbalist practice - scoby (Symbiotic Culture of Bacteria and Yeast -
a material that embodies themes of growing up, containment, and social construct. These works focus
on an aesthetic and sensory experience that reflect the tension between control and chaos.
Central themes researched in van Melle's work are imperfections and
coincidences - queerness and childlike purity.
COMING UP:
30.05 - 15.06 Remnants groupshow T-SPACE Antwerp
06.06 - 20.06 Le petit prinxe - soloshow BOOX.SPACE Haarlem
le petit prinxe
BOOX.SPACE, Haarlem
"All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it." – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
In Le Petit Prinxe, Delta van Melle shows a visual ode to childhood's naive, unfiltered simpleness. Using reverse glass painting, a technique where marks are made blindly on the back of the surface, each piece emerges as a surprise: a conversation between artist and inner child, where memories materialize in delicate lines and simple bright forms.
These works are acts of preservation: fragile feelings (wonder, blunt honesty, untamed curiosity) encased behind glass. Like Saint-Exupéry's Little Prince protecting his rose, van Melle guards vanishing states of being, not through nostalgia, but through urgent, tactile poetry.
Behind each pane lies a proposition: that what is essential is not only invisible to the eye, but easily forgotten. They ask: How do we hold what slips away? When did we stop seeing stars as miracles?
T-SPACE
schoolstraat 27, 2060 Antwerpen
+32456420513
deltavmelle@gmail.com
