Melody Robine

Melody Robine (France, 1998) is a doctoral student in art history at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS). Her research examines artistic interventions in urban space in the former Yugoslavia since the 1980s, focusing on Sarajevo and Skopje. A graduate of Sciences Po Paris and Sorbonne University, she has worked in several museums and art centers (Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, Galerie Templon). She is also an exhibition curator (French Institutes of Sarajevo and Skopje) and has taken part in several international conferences (Technische Universität Wien, University of Basel, Tirana Academy of Sciences).

Her residency project focuses on artistic interventions in urban space in the former Yugoslavia since the 1980s. By analyzing practices that take over the streets, squares and interstices of the city (performances, installations, participatory gestures), Melody is studying the way in which these works reconfigure the relationship of inhabitants to spaces marked by political upheaval and memory. In this context, her residency in Rome will enable her to delve deeper into a transnational aspect of artistic circulations between Italy and the former Yugoslavia at the turn of the 1980s, in order to shed light on continuities, transfers and resonances in these urban practices.