Shoulder Blades, 2016. Digital video with stereo sound, 25minutes. Commissioned and produced by Serpentine Galleries, London. Installation view from The Inhalation Show at ANDOR Gallery, London, 2016.

Aromatherapy Contamination, 2016. Wallpaper steamer filled Eucalyptus oil and boiling water. Installation view from The Inhalation Show at ANDOR Gallery, 2016.

Shoulder Blades, 2016 addresses the conditions of desire and autonomy, cohesion and coherence inside of contemporary, urban relationships. Delving into the dominant narratives surrounding romance - through the languages of cinema, advertising and social media - the film explores the process of developing intimacy whilst maintaining agency and explores the pliable significances of the body within a prescriptive and aggressively binary cultural milieu.

Melia has extracted some of the themes, structural elements and the spatial and physical dynamics from the film to create a contingent space within the gallery.

In constructing an environment that is framed both architecturally and aromatically Melia explores the impact of corporatised, hegemonic spatial narratives on the agency of individuals, on their ability to move, occupy and interrelate. The atmosphere created by eucalyptus vapour – through an up scaled translation of the practices of inhalation and aromatherapy, which benefit the respiratory system, as well as soothing aches and pains – is both therapeutic and aggressive. It conditions the space and the bodies of those who occupy it.