Tying in with the Triennial's theme of the 'double edge', de Melo produced the site-responsive installation Fuga, created for Folkestone's Brewery Tap UCA Project Space. In mosaic making, the term ‘fuga’ refers to the spaces in-between each tessera, the elemental unit or building block. Fuga references the tradition of spatial drawing and deals with the manifestation of colour in physics. Each colour has a specific wavelength that triggers our perceptual apparatus to sense subtle variations in speed, in an otherwise static arrangement of fragmented colour lines. In Fuga, each independent string stands for an elemental unit, suggesting the index of the movement of subatomic particles. Taking its cues from the relationship between mosaic works and architecture, Fuga generates a unique space of sociability and can be interpreted as the antithesis of Richard Serra's Circuit (1972).
