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         Films
_Tales from the Mountaintop
_Repulsion System for Productive Lands   
_The Smiler
 _The Privilege of Acting
_Terra Asciutta  
_Engagement Rate Formula
_The New Man and my Father
 _EMPTY PAGE. Protecting our own
_Glories of a Forgotten Future
_Surplus Production Line
 _The Making of Forty Rectangular Pieces for a Floor Construction
_How is a Storehouse Built
_Here, everybody takes care of me
_Night Watch

         Video Archives
_Instructions from the Great Beyond
_Moments that Shaped the World (serie)
_El EXPLOTE. Statistic Department
 _Omertà
 _Ovation

         Drawing Series
_Department for planning and destruction of Cuban economy

         Installations
 _Land of Plenty
_Anechoic Room
 _Covert Planning
 _Productivity Control System
_The Power of the Working Class
_The Best Effort
_Dreams Production Plan for State-Run Companies
_The Value of Absence
_357.890 sqm Planned

         Photography Series
_Replacement Points
_Time to Relax
_STOCK

         Solo Exhibitions
_2768. 23,53. 8. 1958. 57%. 1000 (2020) 
_Land of Plenty (2018)
_Selective Memory (2018)
_Absolute silence does not exist (2017)
_EMPTY PAGE. Protecting our own (2016)
_Selected Works (2016)
_CENTRUM (2015)
_Surplus Production Line (2014)
_Time to Relax (2013)
_The Value of Absence (2013)
_STOCK (2012)
_New Production Structures (2012)

         Catalogues

_The Value of Absence (2013)
_The Paradox of Labour - a reader to the work of Adrian Melis (2021)

         Lectures, seminars, workshops

_The Paradox of Art and Labour - Sociopolitical practices as form of artistic expressions

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Last update, Nov 2023
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Ovation
     (2013-2019)

         Video archival, internet sources
seven clips, HD h.264, stereo, colour variable lenghts (loop)

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         ‘Ovation’ gathers footage of the Spanish Parliament since the spring of democracy in the 1970s, particularly from 1982, when the first elections were held following the end of Franco’s dictatorship, up until 2013. Since ‘Ovation’ was begun in 2013, further footage has been collected of parliaments in Italy, France, Germany, Belgium, UK and Greece. Every time laws are passed or rejected, a clapping ceremony ensues. Melis’s transformation of this moment into an endless self-applause paints a caricature of the democratic process and presents an almost sinister reading into how our lives are shaped by such theatrics.

 
Installation view: Anatomy of Political Melancholy, Odeion, Athens, Greece, 2017
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