Dig Deeper
6 June - 8 August 2025

Melissa Gordon
Christian Vindelev

Seeing something that is not the thing itself, but an impression, or a reproduction, of the thing. Originals, use-values: ghosts of memory or intention. What if the act of looking is not bound to postmodern collage, or to strategies of appropriation or conceptual proof, but instead unfolds as a kind of slow erosion, a degenerative process of displacement and translation.

Everything is processed: images travel through fibre optics, through celluloid, through liquid crystal displays. Every act of transmission distorts, redirects, or corrupts its original intention. Nothing arrives untouched. Memory, too, is processed, through a body that ages, that will one day die and leave behind objects detached from thought, yet still somehow charged with presence. Our memory is never fixed. It flickers, folds, and rewrites itself with each recall, shaped by who we have become and what we’ve chosen, or forgotten, to remember.

A gap opens between the thing and its representation, or rather, its imprint, its false presentation. A large blue public modernist sculpture from Vindelev’s childhood reappears, not in bronze or steel, but scrappy wood. Gordon’s paintings have leftovers- of matrixes, of paint pushed through holes, clothes, body parts, plants, plastic sheets suffocating pigment, the water evaporated, and pigment left behind.

Something unrecognisable begins to emerge. We are stuck between the world of ‘acting’ and ‘convincing’, there is a pretence at play. Something is stirring from underneath, but if you dig deeper you still won’t find it.



Melissa Gordon is an American and British artist and feminist writer. She has exhibited internationally including at Painting after Painting SMAK, Gent (2025), What is Left, Barbara Seiler Gallery (2025), Vital Signs Kunsthall Oslo (2023), Portals, BEIGE, Brussels (2024), CONTOUR Biennial (2023), We the Body as Sign, Muelheim Ruhr Museum, (2025) Extra City, Antwerp (2023), Female Fatigue, Galerie Stigter van Doesburg (2024), and other museum shows at WIELS, Brussels, Vleeshal, Middelburg, Museum Dhont-Dhanens, MuHKA, Antwerp, Muelheim Ruhr Museum, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, GARAGE, Rotterdam, and Spike Island, Bristol. Her recent book of works and collected writings titled Vital Signs was published by Occasional Papers and Frans Masereel Centrum in 2023.

Christian Vindelev is a Danish artist living in Copenhagen. Recent exhibitions includes Real.Estate., COI, Copenhagen (2025) Pressure, CANTINA, AArhus (2024) The House I Never Built, AAAA Nordhavn, Copenhagen (2023) and Hosting Ghosts, Steenstrup Forsamlingshus, Højby (2023). Vindelev has been an artistic co-director of the artist-run exhibition space Simian in Copenhagen, since it was established in 2020. 

Thanks to Flanders State of the Art & Grosserer L. F. Foghts Fond
Photos: Brian Kure