Skärm med hund

Truls Melin’s work may seem playful and harmless but it often operates in

the darkest corners of the soul. Many of his sculptures bear traces of childhood

memories and he mines his motifs in thesubconscious. They frequently probe

the boundaries between life and death, joy and pain, memory and loss. His work

tends to avoid the self-explanatory, a conscious act in a culture overflowing

with readable images and messages. The seemingly conciliatory monochrome

surfaces in his sculptures also have a political dimension: they hide the works’

construction in the same way as so much is hidden from us in society. Our

consciousness is easily duped when our senses are pleased.